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The tap flow support is doing some workarounds > to include missing support, but these are not the right way to do it. > > The question is: is this even worth keeping? > CentOS 7 reaches end of life in June 2024. > CentOS 7 is using a kernel which is no longer supported. > > If we drop CentOS 7, that means dropping RHEL7 and would need to be hightlighted > in the docs. I thought we had already dropped it. Centos 7 doesn't come by default with a C11-supporting compiler. /Bruce