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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: libmnl limitation...
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:31:42 +0100
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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(...).