Re: named vs 2.5.64-mm5

[Andrew Morton]

jjs <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> Greetings -
> 
> 2.5.64-mm4 and -mm5 seem more rugged than previous
> kernels, but there are a couple of minor nits - one of them
> is the tendency of named (which appears to work reliably
> under 2.4) to go catatonic under recent 2.5.6x kernels -
> 
> More verbose kernel logging may shed some light - or is
> this just a red herring? I get a tons of these in 2.5.64-mm5:
> 
> <...>
> process `named' is using obsolete setsockopt SO_BSDCOMPAT
> process `named' is using obsolete setsockopt SO_BSDCOMPAT
> process `named' is using obsolete setsockopt SO_BSDCOMPAT
> <...>
> 

The changelog has:

# --------------------------------------------
# 03/03/08      [e-mail]        1.1083
# [NET]: Nuke SO_BSDCOMPAT.
# --------------------------------------------

Maybe James can tell us what is going on here.

We should at least place a cap on the number of times that message
is printed.