netdev - Re: [PATCH] bridge-utils:close socket before exit

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Message-ID: <20220803082557.451637d4@hermes.local>
Date:   Wed, 3 Aug 2022 08:25:57 -0700
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     sunsuwan <sunsuwan3@...wei.com>
Cc:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <chenzhen126@...wei.com>,
        <liaichun@...wei.com>, <yanan@...wei.com>, <roopa@...dia.com>,
        <nikolay@...dia.com>, <davem@...emloft.net>, <kuba@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge-utils:close socket before exit

On Wed, 3 Aug 2022 16:20:51 +0800
sunsuwan <sunsuwan3@...wei.com> wrote:

> brctl should close socket before exit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: sunsuwan <sunsuwan3@...wei.com>

Why bother? The file descriptor is closed automatically on process exit.

At this point bridge-utils is in long term hibernation mode.
It has been replaced by bridge command in iproute2.

Don't want to do any changes or releases unless there is a very high priority
bug that must be fixed.