netdev - Re: [PATCH net-2.6.26] netlink: make socket filters work on netlink

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Date:	Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:52:49 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	hadi@...erus.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6.26] netlink: make socket filters work on netlink

jamal wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-31-03 at 22:15 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
>> I'll cook something up based on my and Stephen's patches.
> 
> Nice - now we can move all the filtering off iproute2;->
> 
> My view is that the nature of most stuff to filter on _events_ will
> depend on something along a "whodunnit" field. Route messages have a
> rudimentary form of such a field (the "protocol" field on the quagga
> patch Stephen posted for example uses it). It would be really nice to be
> able to generate such a field on all events to emit say the processid of
> the process which caused the event. Ive been thinking of adding a
> permanent field like that on the actions/filters. What are peoples
> thoughts on that?


Isn't that what nlmsg_pid already contains?
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