netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] af_unix: do not report POLLOUT on listeners

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Message-Id: <20151025.064554.969566293457384990.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 25 Oct 2015 06:45:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	Alan.Burlison@...cle.com, Casper.Dik@...cle.com,
	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, stephen@...workplumber.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, dholland-tech@...bsd.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] af_unix: do not report POLLOUT on listeners

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 10:59:16 -0700

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> poll(POLLOUT) on a listener should not report fd is ready for
> a write().
> 
> This would break some applications using poll() and pfd.events = -1,
> as they would not block in poll()
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Reported-by: Alan Burlison <Alan.Burlison@...cle.com>
> Tested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.
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