Re: [PATCH v2] docs: remove wrong statement about bug in xenstore

[Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>]

On 24/10/16 16:47, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 04:43:59PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> On 24/10/16 15:57, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>>> On 24.10.16 at 15:29, <JGross@suse.com> wrote:
>>>> --- 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
>>>> +	Currently oxenstored has the bug that after 2^32 transactions
>>>>  	it will allocate the transid 0 for an actual transaction.
>>>
>>> While I know nothing about OCaml, I read Andrew's earlier reply
>>> to mean different behavior would result than the one described,
>>> namely differing between 32-bit and 64-bit builds.
>>
>> Do we really still support 32 bit dom0? I thought the support has
>> ended some time ago?
> 
> Yes, we still support that.
> 
> It is the support of 32 bit Xen that has ended.

Okay, do we need to specify the exact conditions where the bug will
occur, or is v2 of the patch okay, as it is clearly more accurate than
the original text?


Juergen


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