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On Tue, 18 Jul 2023 15:06:29 -0300 Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> netlink feels like a weird API choice for that, in particular it would
> be really wrong to somehow bind the lifecycle of a netlink object to a
> process.

Netlink is the right API, life cycle of objects can be easily tied to
a netlink socket.