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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [LIBNFNETLINK] Introduce nfnl_listen_for_msecs
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:39:03 +0100
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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.