On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Radhesh > > On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 06:27, Radhesh Kamath <rmk.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The question is, is it possible to do epoll on a netlink socket ? >> The netlink socket is used to talk to modules that are built into the kernel. > > I am not familiar with netlink, but by looking at the code example in > "man netlink" which use recvmsg(), I am pretty confidence it is > epoll-able. Probably the exception is rtnetlink. Hi Mulyadi, thanks for the answer. Indeed netlink sockets are epoll-able -- I just got my code that does epoll on netlink sockets working. Best, Radhesh > > -- > regards, > > Mulyadi Santosa > Freelance Linux trainer and consultant > > blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com > training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
