Re: [PATCH] ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 11:41:28PM +0200, Michael Richardson wrote:
>   Put a proper userspace API around netlink that abstracts the operations,
> write man pages so that we (application developers) know how to use it, and
> then *BSD can implement it to the ioctl interface and everyone will be happy.

There is libnetlink which helps a lot. It is part of iproute2.
I actually wrote man pages for it some time ago and submitted them, 
but they never appeared for some reason with
iproute2. You can get them from the SuSE libnetlink.rpm though.
There are also man pages for netlink/rtnetlink in the standard linux
manpages (which are admittedly not very good, but they at least exist and
they are not that bad) 


-Andi