jamal wrote: > CCing Hasso Tepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hasso, please comment on this thread (apologies, I forgot the other > guy's name; so if you can CC all the necessary suspects to comment, it > would help).
I fully agree with Herbert Xu: > The pid field in the netlink header should be treated as an opaque > value. Any attempt to interpret it as the process ID is doomed to > failure. Zebra, Quagga and Xorp treat the pid field in the netlink header as unicast address of the netlink socket. As far as I know, that was the original idea: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=113943269432327&w=2 So, for Zebra, Quagga and Xorp users removals of current->pid mean just closing potential races. You can't quarantee that ip/route/ifconfig will not have the pid equal to the address of the netlink socket Zebra/Quagga/Xorp owns. regards, -- Hasso - 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
