Re: [PATCH v2 03/12] mini-os: use alloc_file_type() and get_file_from_fd() in xs

[Andrew Cooper <amc96@xxxxxxxx>]

On 12/01/2022 07:52, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 11.01.22 21:21, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>> On 11/01/2022 15:12, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>>   void xs_daemon_close(struct xs_handle *h)
>>>   {
>>> -    int fd = _xs_fileno(h);
>>> -    struct xenbus_event *event, *next;
>>> -    for (event = files[fd].dev; event; event = next)
>>> -    {
>>> -        next = event->next;
>>> -        free(event);
>>> -    }
>>> +    close(_xs_fileno(h));
>>>   }
>>
>> You've deleted the sole caller of xs_daemon_close() from the main
>> close() function.
>>
>> That said, I'm very confused, because nothing in minios declares it.
>> The declaration appears to come from xenstore.h, which is clearly
>> included unconditionally (when it ought not to be), but libxenstore also
>> defines the function too...
> I already thought of restructuring this mess.
>
> lib/xs.c is the Mini-OS variant of libxenstore, and as such it shares
> quite some code with libxenstore.
>
> So the correct thing to do would be to split libxenstore into a common
> part and a posix/Mini-OS part, drop lib/xs.c, and use the library in
> Mini-OS instead.
>
> But this should be done in a separate series.

Sounds like a plan.

~Andrew