From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] libxenstat: honour XEN_RUN_DIR
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 11:38:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160711103837.GB7019@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22399.57984.534770.868209@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 06:27:28PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Wei Liu writes ("[PATCH 6/7] libxenstat: honour XEN_RUN_DIR"):
> > This is because libxl uses XEN_RUN_DIR to generate the socket path for
> > libxenstat while libxenstat itself uses hard-coded path, which is not
> > necessary in sync with libxl.
>
which is not necessarily the same path as XEN_RUN_DIR.
> This commit message is confusing (and perhaps ungrammatical). Is
> there currently a bug here ?
>
> Maybe this patch or something like it is a backport candidate ?
>
There is no bug in the default configuration because XEN_RUN_DIR is
/var/run/xen by default. But if users chooses a different path the path
used in libxl and the path used in libxenstat will go out of sync hence
rendering libxenstat useless.
I think this is a backport candidate.
Wei.
> Ian.
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-15 11:15 [PATCH 0/7] Honour more configure variables in various places (iteration 3) Wei Liu
2016-06-15 11:15 ` [PATCH 1/7] xenconsoled: honour XEN_RUN_DIR Wei Liu
2016-06-15 11:15 ` [PATCH 2/7] tools/helper: honour XEN_RUN_DIR in init-xenstore-domain.c Wei Liu
2016-07-08 17:25 ` Ian Jackson
2016-07-11 10:38 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-15 11:15 ` [PATCH 3/7] hotplug/FreeBSD: honour XEN_RUN_DIR Wei Liu
2016-06-15 16:18 ` Roger Pau Monné
2016-07-08 17:25 ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-15 11:15 ` [PATCH 4/7] hotplug/NetBSD: " Wei Liu
2016-06-15 16:16 ` Roger Pau Monné
2016-07-08 17:26 ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-15 11:15 ` [PATCH 5/7] hotplug/Linux: " Wei Liu
2016-06-15 16:17 ` Roger Pau Monné
2016-07-08 17:26 ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-15 11:15 ` [PATCH 6/7] libxenstat: " Wei Liu
2016-07-08 17:27 ` Ian Jackson
2016-07-11 10:38 ` Wei Liu [this message]
2016-06-15 11:15 ` [PATCH 7/7] oxenstored: " Wei Liu
2016-06-15 19:43 ` David Scott
2016-07-08 17:27 ` Ian Jackson
2016-07-08 17:28 ` Ian Jackson
2016-07-11 10:38 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-02 10:21 ` [PATCH 0/7] Honour more configure variables in various places (iteration 3) Wei Liu
2016-07-08 17:25 ` Ian Jackson
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