On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 07:59:20PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote: > Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > I don't find it ugly, but alternatively we could add a new type of info > > > sent at the beginning of the commit phase (before all the table/rule etc > > > updates) and include it there. > > > > You mean as a separate netlink message? Then we would have to map that > > message to the actual notification, no? Or do you think it's sufficient > > to cache the last PID/name received and use it for the monitor messages > > until an update to them comes in? > > I didn't check yet but all the notifications should contain the current > generation id and we also send a genid update after a transaction is > done so I suspect its enough to emit the name once per transaction. What is the usecase for this? Please don't tell me the obvious the answer: I just want to know what process has modified what. If the point is to know if someone else, not myself as a process, has modified the ruleset, that is very easy to know with the netlink infrastructure. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
