On Sat, 31 May 2003 14:09:40 +0200 Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
| > You really need something like rtnl_talk() or rtnl_dump_filter()
| > from libnetlink to do this properly.
|
| In case it's helpful I wrote manpages for libnetlink some time ago.
|
| I also have some simple example programs using it. Other examples
| can be found in the zebra or bird source code.
Does this man page live somewhere? Do some distros ship it?
Where can I find your example programs that use it?
Couple of corrections below....
| rtnl_listen
| Receive netlink data after a request and pass it to
| handler. handler is a callback that gets the mes-
| sage source address, the message itself, and the
| jarg cookie as arguments. It will get called for
+ It will be called for
{'get' should usually be avoided when easily done}
| all received messages. Only one message bundle is
| received. Unless there is no message pending this
| function does not block.
|
|
| rta_addattr32
| Initialize the rtnetlink attribute rta with a __u32
| data value.
|
|
| rta_addattr32
+ rta_addattr_l
| Initialize the rtnetlink attribute rta with a vari-
| able length data value.
--
~Randy
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