Re: rtnetlink interface state monitoring problems.

[James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
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