[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] Unlink existing unused sockets at start up

Yuanhan Liu yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com
Thu Dec 17 12:59:06 CET 2015


On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 11:21:02PM -0500, Zhihong Wang wrote:
> This patch unlinks existing unused sockets (which cause new bindings to fail, e.g. vHost PMD) to ensure smooth startup.
> In a lot of cases DPDK applications are terminated abnormally without proper resource release. Therefore, DPDK libs should be able to deal with unclean boot environment.

No, I thought we have made it clear, that a library should not remove a
file given by the application, the application should.


(BTW, please wrap your commit log in 80 chars).

	--yliu


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