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From: Martin Lucina <martin@lucina.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] xenconsole: Ensure exclusive access to
 console using locks
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 14:44:57 +0200
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On Friday, 24.07.2015 at=A017:01, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Martin Lucina writes ("[PATCH v3] xenconsole: Ensure exclusive access to =
console using locks"):
> > If more than one instance of xenconsole is run against the same DOMID
> > then each instance will only get some data. This change ensures
> > exclusive access to the console by obtaining an exclusive lock on
> > <XEN_LOCK_DIR>/xenconsole.<DOMID>.
> =

> Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>

Can this also make it into the 4.6 release on the grounds of being a bugfix
for xenconsole, or is this change too invasive?

Martin