Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 8/8] tools/console: remove 5s bodge in console client

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 05:18:47PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Wei Liu writes ("Re: [RFC PATCH 8/8] tools/console: remove 5s bodge in 
> console client"):
> > On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 04:57:33PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > In particular, what about
> > >    xl create /etc/xen/foo.cfg
> > >    xl console foo
> > > ?
> > > 
> > > I think in this case xenconsole still needs to wait.
> > 
> > xl console will call libxl_console_exec which should wait for the tty
> > node to appear before exec'ing xenconsole.
> 
> Well, except that xenconsole is also on the path.  I (now) don't
> understand why this functionality needs to be moved from xenconsole to
> libxl.
> 

There needs to be a entity that waits for the node to appear. I thought
libxl was in a better position.  That being said, I think let xenconsole
wait would also work.

I don't have a strong preference on how to proceed.

Wei.

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