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Re: [Xen-devel] xm shutdown timeout

To: John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] xm shutdown timeout
From: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 14:44:52 +0100
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On 24/5/07 14:45, "John Levon" <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Perhaps pushing into state 'crashed' is the right thing to do, and treat
>> that state as a catch-all for exceptional termination conditions?
> 
> I considered that. Whilst it's an improvement on what happens now, it
> still seems like the wrong thing to me: typically a crash will dump core
> and destroy, meaning I can't then log in and look around (or debug it
> live from the dom0). I imagine I could set 'preserve', but then I have
> to preserve real crashes too, which is not likely to be what I want.
> Since we can't have a new state, it seems like leaving it would be best.
> Perhaps renaming it to indicate it won't respond to a shutdown request?

Why would you want to dump core and destroy for one type of bug, but not for
another? Renaming the domain is an okay alternative.

 -- Keir



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