[Pkg-xen-devel] [PATCH 08/13] xen init script: rewrite xenstored start logic

[Ian Jackson]

Hans van Kranenburg writes ("Re: [PATCH 08/13] xen init script: rewrite xenstored start logic"):
> Option 1: simplify check to just do -f pidfile existence, like upstream
> launch-xenstore does.
> Option 2: do something with the `xenstore-read -s /` check from the
> timeout loop. If it connects and reads, it's apparently running, boom, done.

Option 3: User gets to keep the pieces.  (If they file a bug tell them
to only change the string when xenstored is not running.)

The point about allowing absolute paths is not there to make this a
fully supported feature.  It's just to not obstruct people who (think
they) know what they are doing.

> Whraagh, actually, instead of continuing with this... Maybe we should
> just call launch-xenstore from the init script, and butcher it a bit
> with a patch in the packaging...

Let's not do this at this stage of the buster release.

> What do you think?

See above...

Ian.

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