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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: netlink versus pid namespaces
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:23:11 +0200
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On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 07:19:03PM +0400, Alexey Kuznetsov wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> > netlink uses pids (or really tids I hope?) to address sockets
> > associated with processes.
> 
> Not really. It uses port number which is called "pid" occasionally. Bad name.
> Autobind function simply selects tgid of calling process as the first guess.

Thanks for the clarification, Alexey. I guess I should have read more
code :/

-Andi