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* [PATCH v3] docs: remove wrong statement about bug in xenstore
@ 2016-10-26  4:55 Juergen Gross
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From: Juergen Gross @ 2016-10-26  4:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xen-devel
  Cc: Juergen Gross, sstabellini, wei.liu2, George.Dunlap,
	andrew.cooper3, ian.jackson, tim, jbeulich

docs/misc/xenstore.txt states that xenstored will use "0" as a valid
transaction id after 2^32 transactions. This is not true. Remove that
statement.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
---
v3: rephrase oxenstored part as suggested by Wei Liu
v2: oxenstored has this bug
---
 docs/misc/xenstore.txt | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/misc/xenstore.txt b/docs/misc/xenstore.txt
index c9f4a05..a0207f1 100644
--- a/docs/misc/xenstore.txt
+++ b/docs/misc/xenstore.txt
@@ -229,8 +229,10 @@ TRANSACTION_START	|			<transid>|
 	tx_id request header field.  When transaction is started whole
 	db is copied; reads and writes happen on the copy.
 	It is not legal to send non-0 tx_id in TRANSACTION_START.
-	Currently xenstored has the bug that after 2^32 transactions
-	it will allocate the transid 0 for an actual transaction.
+	Currently oxenstored has the bug that after the internal
+	representation of transaction id gets overflowed, 0 is returned.
+	xenstored (the implementation written in C) doesn't have this
+	bug.
 
 TRANSACTION_END		T|
 TRANSACTION_END		F|
-- 
2.6.6


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