Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCHv3 0/2] libfs, xenfs: replace /proc/xen/xenbus with a symlink

2016-08-22 Thread Doug Goldstein
On 6/28/16 2:06 PM, David Vrabel wrote: > Using /proc/xen/xenbus can cause deadlocks on the atomic file position > mutex since this file should behave like a character device and not a > regular file. This is easiest to achive by making it a symlink to the > existing /dev/xen/xenbus device. > >

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCHv3 0/2] libfs, xenfs: replace /proc/xen/xenbus with a symlink

2016-08-22 Thread Doug Goldstein
On 6/28/16 2:06 PM, David Vrabel wrote: > Using /proc/xen/xenbus can cause deadlocks on the atomic file position > mutex since this file should behave like a character device and not a > regular file. This is easiest to achive by making it a symlink to the > existing /dev/xen/xenbus device. > >