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RE: [Xen-devel] Is it valid to permit numeric only DomName ?

To: "Yoshinori Katase" <y_katase@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Is it valid to permit numeric only DomName ?
From: "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 13:44:27 -0000
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> Now, Domname is permitted numeric only name.
> It is permitted even 0 !
> Is this a specification ?
> 
> # xm list
> Name                              ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State  Time(s)
> Domain-0                           0      512     1 r-----   503.1
> 22                                21       64     1 ------     1.2
> 21                                22       64     1 -b----     1.0
> 
> I typed "xm shutdown 21", when I want to shutdown DomID 21.
> But this command shutdowned Domname 21.

domain names should be enforced to start with a non-numeric character.
This used to be the case, but obviously got lost somewhere.

An alternative to re-instating the test would be to make it such that
the 'domain' parameter to commands is only interpretted as a domid iff a
lookup as a name fails. That would at least make things consistent, but
sometimes its just better to avoid the opportunity for confusion...


Ian

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