Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: 1.3.94 Ooops For Sale... | Date | Tue, 30 Apr 1996 20:00:33 +0100 (BST) |
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> Each of these messages are "interrupt safe", and there shouldn't be
No. It should be but it isnt. Alexey is bang on with that.
> time of the request, but the user level daemon will continue its work > asynchronously, and the requested functionality will be available inside > the kernel anyway within a very short time.
ARP is in the category of "not worth waiting for a reply" so yes.
> This problem is quite easily fixed _in_user_space_, i.e. in arpd, where > the problem originates!
Not all of it.
Alan
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