Re: [PATCH] docs/designs: re-work the xenstore migration document...

[Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 24/04/2020 15:26, Jürgen Groß wrote:
> > +```
> > +    0       1       2       3       4       5       6       7    octet
> > ++-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
> > +| type                          | len                           |
> > ++-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
> > +| body
> > +...
> > +|       | padding (0 to 7 octets)                               |
> > ++-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
> > +```
> > +
> > +NOTE: padding octets here and in all subsequent format specifications 
> > must be
> > +      zero, unless stated otherwise.
> What about: "... are written as zero and should be ignored on read."
I would rather not say "ignored" because it doesn't allow us to extend 
the record if needed in a safe way. The read side should abort if it 
sees an other value than 0 in the padding.
Cheers,

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Julien Grall