netdev - Re: 'iw events' stops receiving events after a while on 4.9 + hacks

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Message-ID: <20170531081836.GC2849@medion.lan>
Date:   Wed, 31 May 2017 10:18:36 +0200
From:   Bastian Bittorf <bb@....de>
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:     Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 'iw events' stops receiving events after a while on 4.9 + hacks

* Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net> [31.05.2017 10:09]:
> > Is there any way to dump out the socket information if we reproduce
> > the problem?
> 
> I have no idea, sorry.
> 
> If you or Bastian can tell me how to reproduce the problem, I can try
> to investigate it.

there was an interesting fix regarding the shell-builtin 'read' in
busybox[1]. I will retest again and report if this changes anything.

bye, bastian

PS: @ben: are you also using 'iw event | while read -r LINE ...'?

[1]
https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=f5470419404d643070db99d058405b714695b817