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Re: [Xen-devel] execve() in reboot.c ?

To: Philip R Auld <pauld@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] execve() in reboot.c ?
From: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@xxxxxxx>
Date: 26 Jul 2005 14:55:23 +0200
Cc: Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Vincent Hanquez <vincent.hanquez@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Philip R Auld <pauld@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > I kind of like this approach, but it does mean that we can't distinguish
> > between a poweroff and a reboot. Do we care?
> 
> yes, I think there's a difference... If I halt a guest I don't expect
> it to reboot.

Especially if you want to reboot the (physical) machine with something
like "xm shutdown -a -w && reboot" in domain0 ...

  Gerd

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panic("it works"); /* avoid being flooded with debug messages */

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