Re: [PATCH] Fail XS_DIRECTORY for paths with no children

[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 04:17:50PM +0000, Owen Smith wrote:
> When a xenstore path has no children, a response is generated which
> contians only the double null terminator. Detect a 0-length response
> payload and return STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND to indicate that this
> path does not have any children

Is it really the right thing to do? I think it may confuse empty
directory with non-existing directory. But I may be missing some context
here.

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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

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