At 08:50 13.01.98 -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>On Tue, 13 Jan 1998 04:13:20 -0800 (PST) 
> Nathan Gelbard <gelbardn@3jane.hurrah.com> wrote:
>
> > > The patch (against 1.2E sources) I got then which worked for me was
> > 
> > > *** linux_socket.c.orig       Thu Jul  3 20:02:19 1997
> > > --- linux_socket.c    Thu 
> > 
> > I applied the patch, and everything is working GREAT NOW! Thanx much.
> > This should be changed in the kernel tree.
>
>But is this really correct in all cases?  Should this be done maybe
>only on non-blocking sockets?  OR, does Linux always have these semantics?

The patch that I actually applied issued an additional warning via syslog.
Netscape {3,4}/L*nux quite flooded the logs, but it apparently ignores the
returned error values.

As far as I could see in the last six months, the patch breaks nothing.

	hauke


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