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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xl: Check for dependencies in xl

On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 18:46 +0000, Kamala Narasimhan wrote:
> Revised patch based on your comments.  Please let me know if there are
> further suggestions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kamala Narasimhan <kamala.narasimhan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Kamala
> 
> diff -r fe8a177ae9cb tools/libxl/libxl.c
> --- a/tools/libxl/libxl.c       Wed Jan 19 15:29:04 2011 +0000
> +++ b/tools/libxl/libxl.c       Wed Jan 19 13:42:24 2011 -0500
> @@ -38,13 +38,24 @@
> 
>  #define PAGE_TO_MEMKB(pages) ((pages) * 4)
> 
> +static char const xenstore_pid_file[] = "/var/run/xenstore.pid";
> +
>  int libxl_ctx_init(libxl_ctx *ctx, int version, xentoollog_logger *lg)
>  {
> +    struct stat stat_buf;
> +
>      if (version != LIBXL_VERSION)
>          return ERROR_VERSION;
>      memset(ctx, 0, sizeof(libxl_ctx));
>      ctx->lg = lg;
>      memset(&ctx->version_info, 0, sizeof(libxl_version_info));
> +
> +    if ( stat(xenstore_pid_file, &stat_buf) != 0 ) {
> +        LIBXL__LOG(ctx, LIBXL__LOG_ERROR,
> +            "Is xenstore daemon running?\nStat on file %s returned -
> \"%s\".\n",
> +            xenstore_pid_file, strerror(errno));
> +        return ERROR_FAIL;
> +    }

NAK

Actually I think this type of check should go after the xenstore open
has failed, just as an informational/hint type of thing IF it fails.
Rather than applying what is really a heuristic and making it CAUSE a
failure.

Gianni


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