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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Add an ioctl interface for simple xenstore acces

To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Add an ioctl interface for simple xenstore access
From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:38:22 +0100
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> We had discussed this in a previous thread and I thought you were okay
> with this approach.  The /proc/xen/xenbus interface requires full
> parsing of the XenBus protocol.  This requires libxenstore in domU. 
> Today, libxenstore is shipped with the rest of the tools package on most
> distros.  

Changing this and move libxenstore to another package (to avoid pulling
in xend with python if everything you want is xenstore access) isn't a
big problem ...

btw: are xenstore watches supposed to work inside domU?

cheers,

  Gerd

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Gerd 'just married' Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxx>
I'm the hacker formerly known as Gerd Knorr.
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