Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932410AbVKUTqm (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:46:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932079AbVKUTqm (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:46:42 -0500 Received: from zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.57]:41097 "EHLO zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932410AbVKUTql (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:46:41 -0500 Message-ID: <4382240D.4000507@nortel.com> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:46:21 -0600 From: "Christopher Friesen" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: netlink nlmsg_pid supposed to be pid or tid? References: <438220C3.4040602@nortel.com> In-Reply-To: <438220C3.4040602@nortel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Nov 2005 19:46:23.0557 (UTC) FILETIME=[40AE4F50:01C5EED4] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 602 Lines: 15 Friesen, Christopher [CAR:VC21:EXCH] wrote: > > When using netlink, should "nlmsg_pid" be set to pid (current->tgid) or > tid (current->pid)? The reason I ask is that with 2.6.10 we had to set it to tid, which really doesn't make much sense given than sockets are shared across all threads in a process (and gettid() isn't even a libc function). Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/