On Thu, 2006-09-02 at 01:46 +0300, Alexey Kuznetsov wrote: > Hello! > > > What about the dilemma of when there are no netlink sockets > > involved? ;-> > > i.e what is the semantics when there is no netlink socket to map them > > to, such as in the case of ioctl? > > 0, which is legal address of kernel socket. > > In this case it means that "kernel" did the operation.
Ok, that settles it then - so I have no qualms with the patch. All along i was looking at the nl_pid as a representation of "who ordered the operation" not "who did the operation" I actually have found such knowledge useful in user space. It is a good thing Hasso is writing the manpages because he has good grasp of the whole thing. Alexey - if you have time take a look at the sendmsg() thing i referenced earlier. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
