Subject: Re: port-xen/30027: IOCTL_PRIVCMD_INITDOMAIN_EVTCHN abuses errno
To: None <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/23/2005 16:01:40
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 01:35:01PM +0000, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR port-xen/30027; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
> To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
> Cc: port-xen-maintainer@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
> 	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: port-xen/30027: IOCTL_PRIVCMD_INITDOMAIN_EVTCHN abuses errno
> Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 22:34:27 +0900
> 
>  >  > >Description:
>  >  > 	IOCTL_PRIVCMD_INITDOMAIN_EVTCHN abuses errno to return event channel.
>  >  
>  >  Well, this is just the way it works on linux too. Changing this would also
>  >  mean changing the Xen tools. I don't want to add unecessary differrences
>  >  with linux domain0 here.
>  
>  we're already different from linux.
>  patch-ac in pkgsrc is for this difference.

Ha yes, I forgot I made this change, sorry.
But if we fix this we'll have a backward compat issue. I'm not sure how to
handle it.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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