On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 12:58:28PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > I'm not comfortable with that change since it implies the message > originated from a user-space process. > > The netlink header pid is really akin to sadb_msg_pid from RFC 2367. > IMHO it should always be zero if the kernel is the originator of the > message.
Actually I think this has the potential to break applications that ignore any messages with the original pid set to a non-zero value. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
