On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 14:31:34 +0200, "Kay Sievers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > How do you check if events have been "handled"? None of the recent > > > distros uses /sbin/hotplug anymore. Netlink events are broadcasted, > > > but no failure in delivery doesn't mean anything like "handled", or > > > delivered to the right instance. Even if you check that the netlink > > > socket has listeners, that wouldn't be sufficient to tell that is is > > > handled. > > > > You can't check if it's been handled, yes; but you can certainly check > > if you delivered it. > > The broadcast returns a failure when nobody received the message? To my understanding, netlink_broadcast() returns 0 if the message was delivered to someone, -ENOBUFS in case of failure and -ESRCH if nobody listened. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
