From: "Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: netlink nlmsg_pid supposed to be pid or tid?
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:46:21 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4382240D.4000507@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <438220C3.4040602@nortel.com>
Friesen, Christopher [CAR:VC21:EXCH] wrote:
>
> When using netlink, should "nlmsg_pid" be set to pid (current->tgid) or
> tid (current->pid)?
The reason I ask is that with 2.6.10 we had to set it to tid, which
really doesn't make much sense given than sockets are shared across all
threads in a process (and gettid() isn't even a libc function).
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-21 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-21 19:32 netlink nlmsg_pid supposed to be pid or tid? Christopher Friesen
2005-11-21 19:46 ` Christopher Friesen [this message]
2005-11-21 20:51 ` Herbert Xu
2005-11-21 21:35 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2005-11-21 21:47 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-11-21 22:15 ` Herbert Xu
2005-11-21 22:51 ` Christopher Friesen
2005-11-22 0:09 ` Herbert Xu
2005-11-21 22:49 ` Alexey Kuznetsov
2005-11-21 23:34 ` Herbert Xu
2005-11-21 22:16 ` [NETLINK]: Use tgid instead of pid for nlmsg_pid Herbert Xu
2005-11-22 22:43 ` David S. Miller
2005-11-23 0:03 ` Herbert Xu
2005-11-23 6:18 ` David S. Miller
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