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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] Workaround of recvfrom() EAGAIN bug
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:48:06 +0100
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To: Peter Warasin <peter@endian.com>
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Peter Warasin wrote:

 > This is a workaround which prevents ulogd from logging each
 > time when recvfrom() returns error because of EAGAIN.
 > Since the netlink socket is now O_NONBLOCK, we probably run
 > into the following bug:
 > ...

This is not a workaround, but correct handling of EAGAIN on
a non-blocking socket. This happens because we loop until
there is no more data in the receive-queue.

Applied, thanks.