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Re: [Xen-API] [PATCH 2 of 4] xc: split xc non-upstream bindings into xce

To: Vincent Hanquez <Vincent.Hanquez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-API] [PATCH 2 of 4] xc: split xc non-upstream bindings into xcext module
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:32:46 +0000
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On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 11:43 +0000, Vincent Hanquez wrote:
> option 1 is more dynamic than option 2. you can mix and match backend 
> just setting/unsetting your XIU environment before any XC call technically.
> this isn't possible  with LD_PRELOAD, since it's one shot during the 
> start of your program.

True, I hadn't thought of it that way.

> 3 is pretty much equivalent to 1 and best technically IMO.

Agreed.

> it's just a bit more efforts to do,

It turns out to have been a mornings work to implement the hooks support
in libxc plus a simple "ENOSYS stub". I'm hoping it will be an
afternoons work to port xc_lib_injection.c over, but perhaps I'm over
ambitious ;-)

Ian.




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