On Tue, 2006-15-08 at 10:20 +0300, Hasso Tepper wrote: > 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.
We've had this discussion before, havent we? ;-> Why do people like Alexey remember but i dont ;-> In any case if you are happy, I am happy too and i hope this settles it then ;-> 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
