multicasts. But the default, as is used in some other netlink
families, is that only root can receive them. So it seems the
documentation is only a little misleading.
On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 9:12 PM, Craig Davison wrote:
> Some code to reproduce this is at https://github.com/craig65535/mc
casts, even when it's not running as root.
Again, the documentation (man 7 netlink) does not agree with this. Is
this just a documentation bug, or a real bug?
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Craig Davison wrote:
> I wrote a kernel module that sends generic Netlink multicasts, and
> wrote a
I wrote a kernel module that sends generic Netlink multicasts, and
wrote a userland client using libmnl that receives them.
That all works fine, but my client works even when it's not the root user.
man 7 netlink says:
Only processes with an effective UID of 0 or the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability
may
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