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Re: [PATCH 4/6] tools/xenstored: use atexit to close interfaces

To: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
From: Ian Jackson <iwj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 11:34:19 +0100
Cc: <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ian Jackson <iwj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Wei Liu <wl@xxxxxxx>, Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>, Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>
Delivery-date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 10:34:25 +0000
List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xenproject.org>

Roger Pau Monne writes ("[PATCH 4/6] tools/xenstored: use atexit to close 
interfaces"):
> Exploiting the talloc clean up routines to close the Xen interfaces
> is cumbersome, specially when atexit can be used to the same effect.

Wait, what ?  Why do we need to do this at all ?  xenstored can't be
restarted so if it exits we might as well leave whatever wreckage.

AIUI the live update doesn't end up calling atexit ?

Ian.

Follow-Ups:
- Re: [PATCH 4/6] tools/xenstored: use atexit to close interfaces
  - From: Juergen Gross

References:
- [PATCH 0/6] gnttab: add per-domain controls
  - From: Roger Pau Monne
- [PATCH 4/6] tools/xenstored: use atexit to close interfaces
  - From: Roger Pau Monne

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