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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8][CTNETLINK] send conntrack events on ctnetlink
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Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:50:47 +0200
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Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> Currently only conntrack events generated by the conntrack core are
> delivered to userspace via ctnetlink. This patch force the generation of
> event notifications on ctnetlink actions.
> 
> Example scenario: you have two process listening to ctnetlink and one of
> them creates/changes/destroy a conntrack upon certain events

This doesn't apply without 4/8. I also think sending incremental netlink
updates is questionable here, if no conntrack events are configured
other listeners can only get the entire new state by doing an additional
dump.