Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] libnetlink: check flag NLM_F_DUMP_INTR during dumps

From: Nicolas Dichtel <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:03:19 +0100

Le 22/03/2013 15:59, Eric Dumazet a écrit :
> On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 15:45 +0100, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
>> When this flag is set, it means that dump was interrupted and result may be
>> wrong. Ask user to restart.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <[email-masked]>
>
>
> Do we have a guarantee this will complete eventually, on some hosts
> constantly adding removing entries ?
>

No. You mean it will be better to just print a warning and continue the dump?