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Re: [Xen-devel] Control tools work

To: Charles Coffing <ccoffing@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Control tools work
From: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 21:13:06 +0100
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On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 07:56:54AM -0600, Charles Coffing wrote:
> > [1] I think I'll make the control pipe and error/progress reporting 
> > filehandles function call arguments to make it easier to use 
> > {save,restore} when you link libxc into your application. 
> > Although I really think you want to run these in a seperate process to 
> > isolate them from your main application.  If there's real demand we 
> > could bring back something like ioctxt to give you callbacks for 
> > control/error/progress. 
> 
> Is there a specific reason you suggest running these in a separate
> process?  I'm wondering if this is just a general preference because
> isolation tends to be a good thing, or if you suspect, say, a
> maliciously crafted domain could somehow crash the domain builder
> function.

I suspect not all error paths to be well tested.

    christian


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