Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.2 Release Plan / TODO

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 17:13 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Xen 4.2 Release Plan / TODO"):
> > Ian Campbell writes ("Xen 4.2 Release Plan / TODO"):
> > > Plan for a 4.2 release:
> > > http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-03/msg00793.html
> > ...
> > > tools, blockers:
> > >       * libxl stable API -- we would like 4.2 to define a stable API
> > >         which downstream's can start to rely on not changing. Aspects of
> > >         this are:
> > 
> > I took a look at libxl.h and came up with the comments below.  Firstly
> > general things I tripped over, and then the list of things which need
> > converting to the new event system.
> 
> And I should mention that in my event series I have two
> as-yet-unposted half-backed patches to rewrite libxl__spawn_* and
> libxl_domain_create_*.
> 
> It may be that we can add dummy ao_hows to these functions which might
> be good enough for now, although particularly for domain creation
> (which includes spawning) it might complicate the efforts of users to
> use the new API.

How close is your half baked series to do it properly?

> Currently any use of subprocesses inside libxl which is not dealt with
> by the new event machinery will experience problems if the event loop
> is also used, because the event loop will reap the children.

You've covered the bootloader one in existing patches and mentioned the
libxl_$CONSOLE_exec style ones in your last mail. The only other one is
the DM fork which is covered by your rewrite of libxl__spawn?

Ian.


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