From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@eurodev.net>
Cc: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>,
Netfilter Development Mailinglist
<netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: [LIBNFNETLINK] Introduce nfnl_listen_for_msecs
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:39:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43E8B107.8040301@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43E8AFCF.5040604@eurodev.net>
Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> 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.
I got that :) What I actually wanted to know is what kind of program
would need this, and if its not likely that most programs need their
own select-loop for dealing with other fds anyway. Or in other words,
I'm not convinced this feature belongs inside libnfnetlink.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-07 14:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-07 1:47 [LIBNFNETLINK] Introduce nfnl_listen_for_msecs Pablo Neira Ayuso
2006-02-07 14:00 ` Patrick McHardy
2006-02-07 14:33 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2006-02-07 14:39 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2006-02-07 16:37 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2006-02-07 19:55 ` Patrick McHardy
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