Re: [Xen-devel] semantics of GETDOMAININFO

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 8 May 2005, at 22:39, Kip Macy wrote:

> One of the things that I've always thought was weird, but didn't pay
> too close attention to is the fact that GETDOMAININFO will return a
> valid result even if we give it a domid that is no longer valid.
> Looking at the code we get back the first valid domain after the domid
> we pass in.
>
> What is the reason for this design choice? When I request the
> attributes of a process I don't get the attributes for the next pid up
> with a pid field set to the process id of the process I actually got
> the attributes for.
Easy enumeration when we don't know which domain id's are in use. There 
are other ways to allow for enumeration that might be neater.
 -- Keir


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