Subject: Re: UDP recvmsg blocks after select(), 2.6 bug?
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc>, msipkema@sipkema-digital.com,
       cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com, hzhong@cisco.com, jst1@email.com,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
       davem@redhat.com
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On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 18:47, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 18:42:42 -0400
> Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc> wrote:
> 
> > Sure, it's nice to demand that people
> > upgrade to a later version of Perl. Guess what? It isn't happening. It
> > will be another year or two before we can guarantee people have Perl
> > 5.006 on their system.
> 
> If those people are tepid about upgrading perl, I think it would
> be even less likely that they would upgrade their kernels.

Not true.  If you upgrade the kernel you may incur a little downtime. 
Upgrade perl and you potentially break 1000's of customer CGI scripts.

Lee

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