[GENETLINK] get pid from userspace
From: Ariane Keller <hidden>
Date: 2007-06-06 10:21:17
From: Ariane Keller <hidden>
Date: 2007-06-06 10:21:17
Hi, I have a user space program which "connects" to different kernel modules with generic netlink. Each module provides its own generic netlink family. For each module to "connect" to I create a socket and bind it: fd = socket(AF_NETLINK, SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_GENERIC); struct sockaddr_nl addr; memset(&addr, 0, sizeof(addr)); bind(fd, (struct sockaddr *)&addr, sizeof(addr)); As far as I understand, this lets the generic netlink controller choose a unique pid, which shows up in the kernel module in the callback function as genl_info.snd_pid. Is it possible to get this pid in userspace (without sending a message to the kernel module)? Thanks! Ariane