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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: Adding inode field to /proc/net/netlink
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:00:57 -0800 (PST)
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From: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:45:37 +0900 (JST)

> The Inode field in /proc/net/{tcp,udp,packet,raw,...} is useful to know the types of 
> file descriptors associated to a process. Actually lsof utility uses the field.
> Unfortunately, unlike /proc/net/{tcp,udp,packet,raw,...}, /proc/net/netlink doesn't have the field.
> This patch adds the field to /proc/net/netlink.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@redhat.com>

Unfortunately we cannot add new fields without breaking the parsing
done by existing applications.

Sorry.