There's a race condition for if the VM gets powered off between the

listvms and the actual request. Solve the problem correctly by using a
non-conflicting error code to indicate an invalid command

svn path=/trunk/packages/sipb-xen-remote-server/; revision=1163

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 8d0fb11..fad2818 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+sipb-xen-remote-server (0.10.2) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * There's a race condition for if the VM gets powered off between the
+    listvms and the actual request. Solve the problem correctly by using a
+    non-conflicting error code to indicate an invalid command
+
+ -- Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>  Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:46:38 -0400
+
 sipb-xen-remote-server (0.10.1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Make both list-host and listhost valid commands, and for parity with

diff --git a/files/usr/sbin/sipb-xen-remote-control b/files/usr/sbin/sipb-xen-remote-control
index 3ee3e70..6d30d71 100755 (executable)
--- a/files/usr/sbin/sipb-xen-remote-control
+++ b/files/usr/sbin/sipb-xen-remote-control
@@ -30,8 +30,11 @@ def main(argv):
               stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
     (out, err) = p.communicate()
     if p.returncode == 1:
-        print >>sys.stderr, "ERROR: invalid command"
+        print >>sys.stderr, "machine '%s' is not on" % machine_name
         return 1
+    elif p.returncode == 34:
+        print >>sys.stderr, "ERROR: invalid command"
+        return 34
     sys.stderr.write(err)
     sys.stdout.write(out)
     return p.returncode