Re: [PATCH 0/5] tools/xenstore: remove read-only socket

[Wei Liu <wl@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 05:41:36PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> The read-only socket of Xenstore is usable for the daemon case only
> and even there it is not really worth to be kept, as not all
> Xesntore operations changing the state of Xenstore are blocked,
> oxenstored ignoring the read-only semantics completely, and the
> privileges for using the ro-socket being the same as for the normal
> rw-socket.
> 
> So remove this feature with switching the related use cases to the
> Xenstore-type agnostic open- and close-functions..
> 
> Juergen Gross (5):
>   tools/xenstore: remove socket-only option from xenstore client
>   tools/libs/store: ignore XS_OPEN_SOCKETONLY flag
>   tools/libs/store: drop read-only functionality
>   tools: drop all deprecated usages of xs_*_open() and friends in tools
>   tools/xenstore: drop creation of read-only socket in xenstored

Acked + applied.

Please submit a follow-up patch for adding some comments to xenstore.h.

Wei.