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Re: [Xen-devel] Last call for forgotten tools patches for Xen 4.1

To: Chun Yan Liu <CYLiu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Last call for forgotten tools patches for Xen 4.1
From: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:48:54 -0700
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Ian Jackson wrote:
> Jim Fehlig writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Last call for forgotten tools patches for 
> Xen 4.1"):
>   
>> Sorry for the delay, but I just noticed this tools patch submitted by
>> Chun Yan back in November
>>
>> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-11/msg01559.html
>>     
>
> Thanks.  I replied to that but there was no updated patch.
>   

Opps, I thought Chunyan had sent an updated patch but perhaps have
confused this with her qemu keysym patches.

> Now that I look at the patch again I see some other problems:
>  * It closes the fd onto the file after locking it with flock (!)
>  * On success it unlinks the lock file after locking it (!!)
>  * The error return value is wrong (or perhaps it was wrong before).
>   

Err, right.  And there was no follow-up as I assumed.  Chunyan, can you
address Ian's comments and submit an updated patch?

Thanks,
Jim


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