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From: "Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Subject: Re: netlink nlmsg_pid supposed to be pid or tid?
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:46:21 -0600
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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