Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: IP changes in 2.3.4x make things wierd? | Date | 22 Feb 2000 14:50:19 -0800 |
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In article <linux.kernel.200002220857.AAA01378@pizda.ninka.net>, David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com> wrote: > > Testing this does seem to confirm this -- but setting IP_RECVERR > doesn't seem to restore the previous behavior? Am I missing > something? > >It's not meant to, IP_RECVERR works differently. You set the >MSG_ERRQUEUE flag in a recvmsg call and this is how you obtain >the IP_RECVERR descriptor blocks. > >Look folks. All of these arguments are going on deaf ears, because >the old behavior is not coming back without a solution to the problem >which was solved. The problem we have fixed is several orders of >magnitude _worse_ than hostname or username lookups stalling for 30 >seconds on a misconfigured system.
Then why not do a proper solution that is backwards compatable, instead of this half-assed kludge that makes all the other operating systems in the world look like paragons of sensible software design?
____ david parsons \bi/ If it's a problem worth fixing, it's a problem worth \/ fixing correctly.
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