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Re: Netlink Module
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bernd Eckenfels)
Sat Nov 4 19:08:30 1995
To: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: ukd1@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Bernd Eckenfels)
Date: 4 Nov 1995 07:06:54 GMT
Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net) wrote:
> At the moment its used for two things - the netlink route interface allows a
> routing daemon (read gated one day) to monitor interface/kernel routing
> shifts without continaully scanning /proc/net/route and /proc/net/dev.
Is there a name for the netlink minordevices, yet? And what are the _PATH
Variables called? I want to include a small debug-output option to route.
> The other test use is part of the SKIP authentication package. And you can
> find others as you like. It also exports its symbols to modules.
What is the SKIP authentification?
Also it would be nice to have more than one reading process. This could be
done be including a pointer to the actual skb_queue location into the fd's,
and only dequeue a skb if all the programs who opened the device have read
the data.
Greetings
Bernd
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