On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Jason Lunz wrote: > > What do routing netlink sockets have to do with the netlink sockets used > for userspace communication in ip_queue? If they're sharing that > semaphore, is it just named "rtnl" as a historical artifact? > rtnl is a global semaphore for serializing net device events. I vaguely recall the argument that it belongs in rtnetlink because this is the 'home' for net admin code. - James -- James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au> - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
