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From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: why xenstore-* hangs if xenstored is not started
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:06:02 +0100
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On 22/06/2010 08:56, "Vincent Hanquez" <Vincent.Hanquez@eu.citrix.com>
wrote:

> On 22/06/10 08:45, Keir Fraser wrote:
>> Does the xenstore driver in the dom0 kernel put the process into
>> uninterruptible sleep? The 2.6.18 kernel simply returns -ENODEV in this case
>> I think. So perhaps pv_ops has different and inferior behaviour.
> 
> the behavior was the same in 2.6.18.

Ah, I just see 'if (!is_xenstored_ready()) return -ENODEV' in 2.6.18's
xenbus_dev.c. I assumed that would have an effect on this case.

 -- Keir