From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vincent Hanquez Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/11] libxl: Per-domain data storage for the convenience of the library user Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:29:08 +0000 Message-ID: <4BAC8C74.7010602@eu.citrix.com> References: <1269543854-7780-1-git-send-email-ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> <1269543854-7780-9-git-send-email-ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> <4BAC870D.7040108@eu.citrix.com> <19372.35440.623939.567947@mariner.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <19372.35440.623939.567947@mariner.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Ian Jackson Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 26/03/10 10:20, Ian Jackson wrote: > Vincent Hanquez writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 08/11] libxl: Per-domain data storage for the convenience of the library user"): >> The domain is never garbage collected without having the toolstack knows >> about it [...] > > This is not true unless the libxl caller (which you are calling "the > toolstack") has a never-dying daemon (or several), but it might not. All existing and working toolstacks are daemon (xend, XCP, XCI). There's just no ways to do without when you consider real world cases. -- Vincent