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From: Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: DOM0_GETDOMAININFO intended behavior
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 17:17:31 -0700
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> You're not the first person to be caught out by this -- I seem to recall
> that xenctx forgets to do the domid check too.
>=20
> Passing a flag in to explicitly request that you want to iterate would
> probably be an improvement to the interface.

I agree. That way the default behaviour would be what most people expect.

                      -Kip


>=20
> Ian
>=20
> > The current behavior is just not obvious. Perhaps just
> > documenting it in the code and the manual is enough so others
> > don't hit this.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dan
> >
>