From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jamal Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/16] [IPv6] address: Convert address notification to use rtnl_notify() Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 05:50:54 -0400 Message-ID: <1155635455.6946.94.camel@jzny2> References: <20060814213718.580598840@postel.suug.ch> <1155598991.6946.42.camel@jzny2> <1155599469.6946.46.camel@jzny2> <200608151020.26836.hasso@estpak.ee> Reply-To: hadi@cyberus.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov , Thomas Graf , davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mx03.cybersurf.com ([209.197.145.106]:45747 "EHLO mx03.cybersurf.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965340AbWHOJvB (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 05:51:01 -0400 Received: from mail.cyberus.ca ([209.197.145.21]) by mx03.cybersurf.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1GCvZe-0004MU-6N for netdev@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 05:51:02 -0400 To: Hasso Tepper In-Reply-To: <200608151020.26836.hasso@estpak.ee> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2006-15-08 at 10:20 +0300, Hasso Tepper wrote: > Zebra, Quagga and Xorp treat the pid field in the netlink header as > unicast address of the netlink socket. As far as I know, that was the > original idea: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=113943269432327&w=2 > > So, for Zebra, Quagga and Xorp users removals of current->pid mean just > closing potential races. You can't quarantee that ip/route/ifconfig will > not have the pid equal to the address of the netlink socket > Zebra/Quagga/Xorp owns. We've had this discussion before, havent we? ;-> Why do people like Alexey remember but i dont ;-> In any case if you are happy, I am happy too and i hope this settles it then ;-> cheers, jamal