Le 08/06/2016 22:30, Lance Richardson a écrit :
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> I've been pondering how to fix this very problem off-and-on for a few months
> now, without having arrived at any solution that was particularly satisfying.
>
> The main constraints I've been trying to meet are:
> - User-space should be informed of veth pairing for both peers.
> - RTM_NEWLINK messages should not refer to interfaces that haven't
> been announced to user-space via previous RTM_NEWLINK messages.
> - The first (and only the first) RTM_NEWLINK message for a given
> interface should have ifi_changes set to ~0U, subsequent RTM_NEWLINK
> messages should have ifi_changes set to reflect the flags that
> have changed.
>
> This is the closest I've come to a satisfactory solution, it does meet
> the above constraints but still seems a little unnatural to me:
The patch looks good to me. Can you submit it formally?
