Thomas Graf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> IPv4 address notifications originating from a netlink request now
> carry the netlink pid of the request instead of 0.

I'm not comfortable with that change since it implies the message
originated from a user-space process.

The netlink header pid is really akin to sadb_msg_pid from RFC 2367.
IMHO it should always be zero if the kernel is the originator of the
message.

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