Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 12 of 14 v4] libxl: set frontend status to 6 on domain destroy

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Roger Pau Monné writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 12 of 14 v4] libxl: set 
frontend status to 6 on domain destroy"):
> 2011/12/14 Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > So if you rm the backend directory the NetBSD does not take that as a
> > sign to tear down the device? That sounds like a bug in the NetBSD
> > backend -- it should treat deletion of the backend state dir as if it
> > were reading state = "6" and shut everything down.
> 
> Yes, if I delete the frontend from xenstore, the devices are detached.
> Anyway, doing it one way or another (deletion or setting state to 6)
> doesn't really make a difference, you still have to wait for the
> backend to be disconnected (detached) before executing hotplug
> scripts.

So device destruction could be achieved by simply deleting the backend
directory.  But, we would need some other way to detect when the
backend has actually closed the device so that we can run the script.

Ian.

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