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From: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Unlink existing unused sockets at start up
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 19:59:06 +0800
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On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 11:21:02PM -0500, Zhihong Wang wrote:
> This patch unlinks existing unused sockets (which cause new bindings to fail, e.g. vHost PMD) to ensure smooth startup.
> In a lot of cases DPDK applications are terminated abnormally without proper resource release. Therefore, DPDK libs should be able to deal with unclean boot environment.

No, I thought we have made it clear, that a library should not remove a
file given by the application, the application should.


(BTW, please wrap your commit log in 80 chars).

	--yliu