Re: Multicast netlink for non-root process

[Jean Tourrilhes]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 01:31:01AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 01:40:45AM +0400, A.N.Kuznetsov wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > > 	One potential reason is that some of the message may contain
> > > data that is root only. But this should be handled with a finer
> > > granularity.
> > 
> > Exactly. Taking into account that it is not handled with a finer granularity,
> > it is restricted in a facsict manner.
> 
> The only problematic protocols are nf_queue and the firewall netlink I guess.
> 
> This (barely tested) patch should relax it for rtnetlink at least:

	The path works fine here. At least, my non-root app get all
the event proper.
	Thanks a lot for your quick turnaround. I hope it will show up
in 2.5.X someday ;-)

	Jean