Hi, currently (2.6.27) there seems to be no Inode informations about the existing netlinks, only the pid of the process who has opened such a netlink is seen. Nevertheless, the file descriptor is passed over to the child of the creator, e.g. after a fork for a user space daemon like udevd. Is there any other way to determine which socket found in dir /proc/<pid>/fd/ is a netlink and also to determine which type of netlink it is? The lsof utility reports can't identify protocol for such netlinks. Werner -- "Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool." -- Edward Burr -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html