Re: rtnetlink interface state monitoring problems.

James Morris (jmorris@intercode.com.au)
Mon, 21 Oct 2002 23:46:24 +1000 (EST)


On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, David Woodhouse wrote:

> 1. I appear to need CAP_NET_ADMIN to bind to the netlink groups which give
> me this information. I can poll for it just fine, but need
> elevated privs to be notified. Why is this, and is there a workaround?

Andi Kleen implemented a simple and effective workaround this for 2.4
which has gone into the tree (see netlink_set_nonroot() in rtnetlink.c).

Another more complicated solution was partially developed for 2.5, but is
unlikely to make it in by Halloween.

- James

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James Morris
<jmorris@intercode.com.au>

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