Re: netlink tester program

["Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>]

On Fri, 30 May 2003 23:42:11 -0700 (PDT) "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote:

|    From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
|    Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 20:22:12 -0700 (PDT)
|    
|    Oh well, it's at this URL, bugs and all.
|    
|    http://www.xenotime.net/linux/ipv6/rtnl_test.c
|    
| I know you don't want to use libnetlink from iproute2, but I want to
| stress that it takes care of all of the minutae of netlink socket
| usage that you have to duplicate in your little test program and this
| duplication leads to bugs.
| 
| Firstly, you needs to be fixed to call recvmsg() multiple times,
| you'll get one entry for each recvmsg call in the table you are
| querying.

Yes, I noticed that I was getting only 1 msg there.

| You really need something like rtnl_talk() or rtnl_dump_filter()
| from libnetlink to do this properly.

Does anyone have documentation (or semantics) for rtnl_talk()?
or just some blurb about it?
Andi's libnetlink man page missed it somehow.

Thanks,
--
~Randy