[pcp] Regression for handling of ipc_prot=notready

[Max Matveev]

On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:53:38 +1100, Ken McDonell wrote:

 kenj> I'm not sure when this bit of "notready" fluff got added to pmcd's
 kenj> config file (the pmcd<->PMDA protocol support has been there for a long
 kenj> time, since the first Oracle PMDA was written).
It was added at the same time then async support was added - we simply
could not find a better way to deal with races between HUTA pmda
starting up and pmcd wanting to talk to it.

 kenj> However from reading the code, it looks like for a PMDA connected via a
 kenj> pipe, the supported protocols in the pmcd config file are "binary" or
 kenj> "binary notready".
This is correct.

max