On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 20:58:35 +1000 Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote: > Yes but some people are paranoid :) I understand. > On the other hand if you VPN server with thousands of connections > gets stuck because nothing was returned from the NETLINK socket... Actually, more importantly, if you configure your VPN server such that it can run out of all memory and swap (that's essentially when this netlink_ack() alloc failure will trigger) you have larger issues. But of course we'll fix this so these folks have an even larger rope by which to hang themselves :) - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html