for better robustness.  This cray/select plugin code has
    been modified to remove a possible timing window where two
    aeld pthreads could exist, interfering with each other through
    the global aeld_running variable.

    An additional validity check has been added to the data provided
    to aeld through an alpsc_ev_set_application_info() call.
    If an error is returned from that call, only certain errors
    need the current socket connection closed to aeld and a new
    connection established.  Other error returns will log an
    error message and keep the current session established with
    aeld.