Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 8/8] tools/console: remove 5s bodge in console client

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 05:32:30PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Wei Liu writes ("Re: [RFC PATCH 8/8] tools/console: remove 5s bodge in 
> console client"):
> > On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 05:18:47PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > Well, except that xenconsole is also on the path.  I (now) don't
> > > understand why this functionality needs to be moved from xenconsole to
> > > libxl.
> > 
> > There needs to be a entity that waits for the node to appear. I thought
> > libxl was in a better position.  That being said, I think let xenconsole
> > wait would also work.
> 
> My point is that xenconsole seems to have the functionality already.
> You are moving it to libxl.
> 

Yes, that's what I did.

> The sole visible effect of this is to make xenconsole unreliable for
> people who invoke it directly.
> 

No, it should (at least by design) still be reliable since the libxl now
waits before exec xenconsole.

Wei.

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