Subject: Re: port-xen/30027: IOCTL_PRIVCMD_INITDOMAIN_EVTCHN abuses errno
To: None <port-xen-maintainer@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/23/2005 14:02:01
The following reply was made to PR port-xen/30027; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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 16:01:40 +0200

 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>
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