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Subject: Re: Can one program see another's scan-results?
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On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 12:02 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> Is there a way to open a netlink socket and have it receive
> all scan results (even those requested by other applications)?

What do you mean by scan results? The results themselves? No, they are a
dump and unicast to one application. The fact that a scan finished? Yes,
of course.

johannes