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

[Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wei Liu writes ("Re: [RFC PATCH 8/8] tools/console: remove 5s bodge in console 
client"):
> 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:
> > > My point is that xenconsole seems to have the functionality already.
> > > You are moving it to libxl.
> > 
> > Yes, that's what I did.

... but my implicit question was: why ?

> > > 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.

And, when someone invokes xenconsole directly, libxl is not involved.

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

Good, thanks.

Ian.

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