On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 02:19:32PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > > > The man page netlink(7) refers to nlmsg_pid and nl_pid as process IDs. > > This is completely incorrect. Treating them as process IDs can lead > > to security holes. So please ask upstream to correct this as soon as > > possible. > > Can you provide a patch with the sort of wording you think is correct?
The point is that these fields are simply opaque values that identify a specific netlink socket. So please refer to them as the netlink socket address. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
