> If you use netlink operations directly, Thanks for such feedback.
Should this programming interface become better known? > you can have the kernel filter on various criteria > and only get the socket entries you are interested in. This is good to know. > This whole discussion has zero to do with what text format 'ss' outputs. Some software components are affected here. The socket statistic tool is using data from the directory “/proc/net”. * Provided text files refer to known Linux data formats. Can it happen to work with other data formats there? * The analysis program can also be extended for the support of additional data formats, can't it? Regards, Markus

