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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@eurodev.net>
Subject: Re: [LIBNFNETLINK] Introduce nfnl_listen_for_msecs
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:33:51 +0100
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Patrick McHardy wrote:
>>The patch attached introduces a new function called
>>nfnl_listen_for_msecs. This is useful for polling netlink events.
> 
> Can you give an example how this is going to be used?

A program waits for some specific event, if it doesn't happen in a given
period of time, it gives up.

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Pablo