Re: [PATCH 20 of 29 RFC] libxl: introduce libxl hotplug public API functions

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>]

On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 18:55 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Jackson writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 20 of 29 RFC] libxl: introduce libxl hotplug public API functions"):
> > Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 20 of 29 RFC] libxl: introduce libxl hotplug public API functions"):
> > > Do you integrate with the libxl event loop? If you did wouldn't this be
> > > trivial to handle in xl and wouldn't the xldeviced become the trivial
> > > setup + run the event loop program?
> > 
> > That would be one way to look at it.
> > 
> >   void libxl_xldeviced_enter(libxl_ctx*); /* never returns */
> 
> Actually, thinking about it, the interface is probably:
> 
>    int libxl_devicedaemon_start(libxl_ctx*);
>      /* Causes this libxl ctx to behave like the xl device daemon
>       * whenever it is processing libxl events. */
> 
> and then the caller can do this
> 
>    rc = libxl_devicedaemon_start(ctx);
>    if (rc) ...
> 
>    for (;;) {
>        ... libxl_event_wait ...   
>    }

This is the sort of thing I was imagining too.

> In principle it would be possible for this device daemon to be part of
> some other daemon this way.

Yes.

Ian