On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 05:29:20PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > The kernel header of 2.6.20 says in include/linux/netlink.h > > /* Sending process PID */ > > If it should be changed in the corresponding manpage, I guess that it should > be changed in the kernel as well (if not first).
Thanks for pointing that out. I've made a patch to fix that. > Apart from that, the manpage netlink(7) contains the following note: > > nlmsg_seq and nlmsg_pid are used to track messages. nlmsg_pid shows > the origin of the message. Note that there isn't a 1:1 relationship > between nlmsg_pid and the PID of the process if the message originated > from a netlink socket. See the ADDRESS FORMATS section for further > information. > > which explains that's nlmsg_pid is not exactly a process ID. We should simply call these numbers port IDs and remove all references to the word process. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
