On Fri, 2018-11-02 at 07:46 -0400, John Ferlan wrote:
> > + * NB: Usage of event based socket algorithm causes some
issues with
> > + * older platforms such as CentOS 6 in which the data socket is opened
>
> ^Sounds a bit too generic, as an event based algorithm is not forced to open a
> socket without O_NONBLOCK - just put something like "older platforms'
libudev
> opens sockets without the NONBLOCK flag which might cause issues with event
> based algorithm" or something alike in there.
* NB: Some older distros, such as CentOS 6, libudev opens sockets
* without the NONBLOCK flag which might cause issues with event
* based algorithm. Although the issue can be mitigated by resetting
* priv->dataReady for each event found; however, the scheduler issues
* would still come into play.
I haven't looked into this at all so I might be missing something
entirely obvious, but I'd just like to point out that we no longer
target RHEL 6 / CentOS 6, so any issue that's specific to those
platforms we no longer have to concern ourselves with.
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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization