Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 1/7] xenstore-read: add support for a retry open limit on xenstored

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2014-03-21 at 15:40 +0000, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 19/03/14 20:58, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > This adds support for a customizable retry limit on trying to open
> > the xenstored, each retry is separated by 1 second. This should allow
> > us to simplify both our LSB init scripts and eventually our systemd
> > service files for starting the xenstored.
> 
> 
> This seems odd. Surely the point of systemd is that you only start
> services once their dependencies are up?  It doesn't seem right to have
> a service poll for another.

Isn't this trying to decide when xenstored is up, for use in the
xenstored.service itself?

But now I think of it -- isn't this exactly what the socket activation
stuff is for?

Ian.


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