Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: Use xenbus to communicate with xenstore if the socket fails

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: Use xenbus to communicate 
with xenstore if the socket fails"):
> The current driver seems to use wait_event_interruptible and attempt to
> do something sane looking with O_NONBLOCK on read but on write looks
> like it may end up waiting for a reply forever if xenstored has gone
> away, there's even a "FIXME avoid synchronous wait for response" in the
> code.

However, given the plan to try the socket first, I think it would be
best to go ahead and hide this distinction inside libxenstore even
while that bug remains unfixed.

Ian.

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