[PATCH v3 4/5] netlink: decode "family" field of Netlink GENERIC protocol

Dmitry V. Levin ldv at altlinux.org
Tue Jun 13 22:07:57 UTC 2017


On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 05:26:44PM +0900, Masatake YAMATO wrote:
> Example session:
> 
>   $ ./strace -yy -e 'sendto' ip tcp_metrics > /dev/null
>   sendto(4<NETLINK:[GENERIC:7939]>, {{len=20, type=tcp_metrics, ...
>   +++ exited with 0 +++
> 
> type= is decoded well.

If the field name is nlmsg_type, why call it "family"?


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