From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 8/8] tools/console: remove 5s bodge in console client
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 17:36:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160805163608.GU32096@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22436.49054.259789.988720@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 05:32:30PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Wei Liu writes ("Re: [RFC PATCH 8/8] tools/console: remove 5s bodge in console client"):
> > On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 05:18:47PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > Well, except that xenconsole is also on the path. I (now) don't
> > > understand why this functionality needs to be moved from xenconsole to
> > > libxl.
> >
> > There needs to be a entity that waits for the node to appear. I thought
> > libxl was in a better position. That being said, I think let xenconsole
> > wait would also work.
>
> My point is that xenconsole seems to have the functionality already.
> You are moving it to libxl.
>
Yes, that's what I did.
> The sole visible effect of this is to make xenconsole unreliable for
> people who invoke it directly.
>
No, it should (at least by design) still be reliable since the libxl now
waits before exec xenconsole.
Wei.
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Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-29 12:07 [XTF PATCH] xtf-runner: fix two synchronisation issues Wei Liu
2016-07-29 12:43 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-07-29 12:58 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-29 13:06 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-07-29 13:12 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-29 13:23 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-07-29 13:26 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-29 14:31 ` Ian Jackson
2016-07-29 14:55 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-29 16:18 ` Ian Jackson
2016-07-29 16:35 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-07-29 16:41 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-29 15:05 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-08-01 13:16 ` [RFC PATCH 0/8] Fix console " Wei Liu
2016-08-01 13:16 ` [RFC PATCH 1/8] tools/console: fix help string in client Wei Liu
2016-08-05 15:40 ` Ian Jackson
2016-08-01 13:16 ` [RFC PATCH 2/8] tools/console: introduce --start-notify-fd option for console client Wei Liu
2016-08-05 15:43 ` Ian Jackson
2016-08-01 13:16 ` [RFC PATCH 3/8] libxl: factor out libxl__console_tty_path Wei Liu
2016-08-05 15:44 ` Ian Jackson
2016-08-01 13:16 ` [RFC PATCH 4/8] libxl: wait up to 5s in libxl_console_exec for xenconsoled Wei Liu
2016-08-05 15:48 ` Ian Jackson
2016-08-01 13:16 ` [RFC PATCH 5/8] libxl: libxl_{primary_, }console_exec now take notify_fd argument Wei Liu
2016-08-05 15:49 ` Ian Jackson
2016-08-05 15:50 ` Ian Jackson
2016-08-01 13:16 ` [RFC PATCH 6/8] docs: document xenconsole startup protocol Wei Liu
2016-08-05 15:52 ` Ian Jackson
2016-08-01 13:16 ` [RFC PATCH 7/8] xl: use " Wei Liu
2016-08-05 15:55 ` Ian Jackson
2016-08-01 13:16 ` [RFC PATCH 8/8] tools/console: remove 5s bodge in console client Wei Liu
2016-08-05 15:57 ` Ian Jackson
2016-08-05 16:16 ` Wei Liu
2016-08-05 16:18 ` Ian Jackson
2016-08-05 16:28 ` Wei Liu
2016-08-05 16:32 ` Ian Jackson
2016-08-05 16:36 ` Wei Liu [this message]
2016-08-05 17:23 ` Wei Liu
2016-08-08 10:07 ` Ian Jackson
2016-08-01 14:04 ` [XTF PATCH] xtf-runner: use xl create -Fc directly Wei Liu
2016-07-29 13:27 ` [XTF PATCH] xtf-runner: fix two synchronisation issues Andrew Cooper
2016-07-29 14:21 ` Ian Jackson
2016-07-29 14:25 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-29 14:35 ` Ian Jackson
2016-07-29 14:46 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-29 14:26 ` Andrew Cooper
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