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From: "Samuel Ortiz" <samuel@sortiz.org>
Subject: Re: Generic netlink interface help
Date: 24 May 2007 10:04:08 -0000
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On 5/24/2007, "Rodolfo Giometti" <giometti@enneenne.com> wrote:

>> You probably want to use the libnl library. The latest SVN code has
>> support for generic netlink:
>> http://people.suug.ch/~tgr/libnl/
>
>Regarding this issue I'd like to know if could be possible to avoid
>using this library... my LinuxPPS support is strictly relate with NTPD
>which doesn't use such library. It could be possible still using
>simple syscalls to access this new layer as for the old API?
Yes it's possible, even though it could be more tedious and painful.

Cheers,
Samuel.