On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 01:33:37AM +0200, Phil Sutter wrote:
> time() may return -1 which is then assigned to an unsigned integer type
> and used as sequence number. The following code increments that number
> multiple times, so it may overflow and get libmnl confused. To avoid
> this, fall back to a starting sequence number of zero in case the call
> to time() failed.

(uint32_t)-1 should be fine for netlink as sequence number.
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