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 05:36:08PM +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 05:32:30PM +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 05:18:47PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > 
> > My point is that xenconsole seems to have the functionality already.
> > You are moving it to libxl.
> > 
> 
> Yes, that's what I did.
> 
> > The sole visible effect of this is to make xenconsole unreliable for
> > people who invoke it directly.
> > 
> 
> No, it should (at least by design) still be reliable since the libxl now
> waits before exec xenconsole.

Now I have decided to drop patch 4 -- the less patch the better. :-)

Wei.

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