Re: UDP recvmsg blocks after select(), 2.6 bug?

[Lee Revell]

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 18:47, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 18:42:42 -0400
> Mark Mielke <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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