[OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] pseudo: Add fastop reply fix

[Alexander Kanavin]

On 09/22/2017 07:52 PM, Seebs wrote:
>> This changes the pseudo FASTOP functionality so that a reply to the
>> operation is required. This means we then cannot lose data if a
>> connection is closed. This in turn stops corruption if we run out of
>> file handles and have to close connections.
>>
>> This tweaks the connection closure patch to update the comment there
>> which is now outdated.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
> 
> This looks reasonable to me. I did some testing with a very similar
> patch and concluded that, while it slowed performance slightly, it
> didn't slow it nearly as much as the pre-fastop behavior did.

Also, the issue this patch is fixing is not theoretical. Setting max fd 
limit to a low value (192) is causing errors on my machine:

dpkg-deb: error: maintainer script 'postinst' has bad permissions 644 
(must be >=0555 and <=0775)

and with the patch they seem to go away.

Alex