RE: [Xen-devel] Is it valid to permit numeric only DomName ?

["James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have visions of the "who's on first" sketch in my head...

:)

I assume you are pointing this out because you see it as a bug, not
because it is something you would ever actually want to do?

James

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-devel-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Yoshinori Katase
> Sent: Wednesday, 28 December 2005 16:00
> To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Xen-devel] Is it valid to permit numeric only DomName ?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Now, Domname is permitted numeric only name.
> It is permitted even 0 !
> Is this a specification ?
> 
> # xm list
> Name                              ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State  Time(s)
> Domain-0                           0      512     1 r-----   503.1
> 22                                21       64     1 ------     1.2
> 21                                22       64     1 -b----     1.0
> 
> I typed "xm shutdown 21", when I want to shutdown DomID 21.
> But this command shutdowned Domname 21.
> 
> # xm shutdown 21
> # xm list
> Name                              ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State  Time(s)
> Domain-0                           0      512     1 r-----   506.0
> 22                                21       64     1 -b----     1.2
> 
> It seems that the priority is given to Domname.
> But Domname "0" is an exception.
> 
> # xm list
> Name                              ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State  Time(s)
> Domain-0                           0      512     1 r-----   521.8
> 0                                 23       64     1 -b----     1.0
> # xm shutdown 0
> Error: Can't specify Domain-0
> 
> This is serious, when many domains are running.
> To avoid confusion, Domname shuld be an identifier.
> That is the first letter of Domname shuld be alphabetic.
> Am I wrong ?
> 
> Best Regards,
> Yoshinori Katase
> 
> 
> 
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