[openib-general] [PATCH/RFC] libibverbs and libmthca fork support

[glebn at voltaire.com]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 09:40:09AM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Gleb> We can also provide environment variable to control
>     Gleb> libibverbs behaviour. This way if programmer made a wrong
>     Gleb> assumption user will be able to fix it.
> 
> OK, I added this little snippet:
> 
> 	if (getenv("RDMAV_FORK_SAFE") || getenv("IBV_FORK_SAFE"))
> 		if (ibv_fork_init())
> 			fprintf(stderr, PFX "Warning: fork()-safety requested "
> 				"but init failed\n");
> 
> so that setting either RDMAV_FORK_SAFE or IBV_FORK_SAFE environment
> variables forces the library to try to be fork()-safe.
> 
Looks good to me. Thanks.

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			Gleb.