[Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 6/8] docs: document xenconsole startup protocol

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 docs/misc/console.txt | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/misc/console.txt b/docs/misc/console.txt
index ed7b795..0da295e 100644
--- a/docs/misc/console.txt
+++ b/docs/misc/console.txt
@@ -124,3 +124,9 @@ can only have one pv console with xenstored as backend (the 
stubdom
 could provide pv console backends to the hvm guest but then it would
 need another pv console connection for each console backend to export
 the pty to dom0).
+
+The xenconsole program supports a very simple protocol to notify parent about
+its readiness. If xenconsole (the client) is exec'ed and has been given a fd
+(normally the write end of a pipe) via --start-noitify-fd option, it will
+write 0x00 to that fd after connecting to the guest but before entering the
+event loop. Parent can read fromt the read end of the fd to know the status.
-- 
2.1.4


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