Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 01/15] xenstore: add support for a retry open limit on xenstored

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jacek Konieczny writes ("Re: [PATCH v4 01/15] xenstore: add support for a retry 
open limit on xenstored"):
> On 05/12/14 16:18, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2014-05-12 at 14:50 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> >> I'm afraid I fundamentally disagree with this timeout/polling based
> >> approach.
> >
> > As for the retry -- I suppose xenstored forks before it is really ready?
> 
> I guess this should be fixed in xenstored instead of hacking
> work-arounds in the client. When daemon start succeeds then the socket
> should be available and working. If it failed, no retry will help. If
> the daemon is still starting although the start command exited â than
> this sounds like a bug.

Right.

I think moving this retry from a shell script into the client code is
going in the wrong direction.

Thanks,
Ian.

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