* Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2006-08-16 12:58 > 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.
All route and tc notifications already use the pid so applications can decide whether the event was caused by them. A notification is a reply to a request so it doesn't even violate RFC 2367. - 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