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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Tue Sep 3 20:30:28 1996
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: news@inka.de (news)
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 16:30:52 +0100 (BST)
Cc: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
In-Reply-To: <m0uxvRG-000KzLC@sapa.inka.de> from "news" at Sep 3, 96 03:22:00 pm
> The following small patch retries obtaining the route after calling
> kerneld up to three times. This is sub-optimal (it really should check
> the return code of request-route) but easy, and it can help for
> dial-on-demand applications. (Not retrying if the first attempt failed
> can also be coded into the request-route script.)
Repeat for about the 10,000th time on linux-kernel. the route lookup code
is atomic. kerneld route lookup has to fail like that, use diald to do
dial on demand stuff. This isnt going to change and as many people as they
like can send bogus broken patches.
Alan
