Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v7 7/8] autoconf: xen: enable explicit preference option for xenstored preference

["Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 04:40:46PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-07-17 at 16:28 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > +This file has one relevant variables
> 
> just "variable"
> 
> > which is specific to the version of xenstored used:
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by this. The variable isn't specific to
> either version, it's the path of whichever one. I think you can drop
> that entire clause.

OK. Dropped.

> > -# Select xenstored implementation
> > -#XENSTORED=[oxenstored|xenstored]
> > +# Select xenstore implementation, this can be either
> > +# of these below. If using systemd it's preferred that you
> > +# just edit the xenstored.service unit file and change
> > +# the XENSTORED variable there.
> > +#
> > +# This can be either of:
> > +#  * @SBINDIR@/oxenstored
> > +#  * @SBINDIR@/xenstored
> 
> Does it need to be the full path or is $PATH searched?

The full path is preferred, on legacy init the variable is used
to execute alone, but of course the path will be searched. For
systemd exec $XENSTORED is used, that looks on the path as well.
I think its best to specifcy the full path to be safe and explicit.

  Luis

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