Le 02/10/2019 à 03:20, David Miller a écrit : > From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dich...@6wind.com> > Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:02:12 +0200 > >> The goal of the series is to ease nsid allocation from userland. >> The first patch is a preparation work and the second enables to receive the >> new nsid in the answer to RTM_NEWNSID. > > The new reply message could break existing apps. > > If an app only performs netnsid operations, and fills up the receive > queue because it isn't reading these new replies (it had no reason to, > they didn't exist previously), operations will start failing that > would not fail previously because the receive queue is full. Yes I see the problem. I was wondering if this was acceptable because the nl ack is sent at the end. But nl ack are optional :/
> > Given this, I don't see how we can make the change. > Is a new flag attribute ok to turn on this reply? Thank you, Nicolas
