Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: wait for the ack when issuing power control requests

[Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Anthony PERARD writes ("Re: [PATCH] libxl: wait for the ack when issuing power 
control requests"):
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 12:12:59PM +0200, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> > I believe applying this patch is not going to cause regressions in
> > osstest, albeit FreeBSD doesn't acknowledge poweroff/reboot requests
> > in the currently tested versions, it will shutdown in less than one
> > minute, and thus the toolstack won't complain because the control node
> > is going to be removed from xenstore.
> 
> Acknowledgement is described in the documentation of ~/control/shutdown
> (described in xenstore-paths.pandoc), so I guess it would be a bug in
> FreeBSD rather than a regression of the toolstack. Isn't it?

Well, yes, but we try to avoid breaking old guests, even if they are
buggy.

Ian.

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