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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: libmnl limitation...
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 14:38:25 -0800 (PST)
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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:31:42 +0100

> On 20/02/11 23:25, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
>> On 20/02/11 22:41, David Miller wrote:
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, libmnl only allows setting socket options
>>> that are of SOL_NETLINK.
>>>
>>> This precludes setting socket options such as SO_ATTACH_FILTER
>>> which need to be of level SOL_SOCKET.
>>>
>>> It seems to be a mistake to have hard-coded the socket level
>>> instead of simply letting the user specify it :-/
>> 
>> Indeed, I'm going to obsolete the current function and provide a new
>> one. Sorry.
> 
> Actually, we can obsolete mnl_setsockopt(...), which is silly BTW, and
> we can use mnl_socket_get_fd(...) with setsockopt(...).

Sure.