Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2 of 2] libxl: publish number of shared and paged pages

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2 of 2] libxl: publish number of 
shared and paged pages"):
> I was wondering if we should just bit the bullet and agree that only the
> machine readable "xl list -l" output is backwards compatible? Supporting
> machine parsing of the human readable "xl list" output is pretty
> limiting in many ways.

Mmmm.

> The default for "xl list -l" is now json output (which is autogenerated
> and will therefore pickup new field automatically) but there is an
> option to use the xm sxp syntax too.
> 
> If changing the machine readable output is actually impossible I suppose
> we could add a "--old-style" flag to ease the transition?

Can we make it an environment variable ?

Ian.

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