[ovs-dev] [PATCH] netlink-socket: Don't bother logging SO_RCVBUFFORCE failure as non-root.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Sun Aug 19 20:41:38 UTC 2012


On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 03:40:13PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Some Open vSwitch utilities can do useful work when they are not run as
> root.  Without this commit, these utilities will log a warning on failure
> to use the SO_RCVBUFFORCE socket option if they open any Netlink sockets.
> This will always happen, it does not report anything unexpected or
> fixable as non-root, and sometimes it makes users wonder if something is
> wrong, so there is no benefit to logging it.  This commit drops it in that
> case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>

This was sent out again as the first patch in a multipart series, which
Ethan has already reviewed, so this doesn't require further review.

Thanks,

Ben.



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