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?
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david parsons \bi/ If it's a problem worth fixing, it's a problem worth
\/ fixing correctly.
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