nl_pickup() converts error codes from netlink into
nl error codes using nl_syserr2nlerr(). The latter function
mangles different error codes to the same nl error code.
Add a new function, that returns both the nl error code
and the original error code.
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Haller <thaller@redhat.com>
- Inet diag allows users to gather low-level socket information.
- This library provides a higher-level API for creating inetdiag requests (via
idiagnl_connect and idiagnl_send_simple) and parsing the replies (via
idiagnl_msg_parse). A cache is also provided (via idiagnl_msg_alloc_cache).
- Request and message objects provide APIs for accessing and setting the
various properties of each.
- This library also allows the user to parse the inetdiag response attributes
which contain information about traffic class, TOS, congestion, socket
memory info, and more depending on the kernel version used.
- Includes doxygen documentation.
commit f20bbe1f07
Author: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Date: Tue Jan 22 19:10:38 2013 +0100
No longer install module API headers
This commit causes a regression so no app using libnl can be compiled
against it. This patch fixes it by removing includes of no-longe
existing headers.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Apparently the change to have nl_recvmsgs() return the number of
parsed messages broke nl_wait_for_ack() among other applications.
This patch reverts to the old behaviour and provides a new function
nl_recvmsgs_report() which provides the additional information for
use by the cache manager and possibly other applications.
Reported-by: Scott Bonar <sbonar@cradlepoint.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@redhat.com>
Provide nl_pickup() to pick up an answer from a netlink request and parse
it using the supplied parser.
Add rtnl_link_get_kernel() which sends an RTM_GETLINK to the kernel to
fetch a single link directly from the kernel. This can be faster than
dumping the whole table, especially if lots of links are configured.
Create new function nl_send_iovec() to be used to send multiple 'struct iovec'
through the netlink socket. This will be used for NF_QUEUE, to send
packet payload of a modified packet.
Refactor nl_send() to use nl_send_iovec() sending a single struct iovec.
Create new function nl_auto_complete() by refactoring nl_send_auto_complete(),
so other functions that call nl_send may also use nl_auto_complete()
Signed-off-by: Karl Hiramoto <karl@hiramoto.org>
The idea of a common handle is long revised and only misleading,
nl_handle really represents a socket with some additional
action handlers assigned to it.
Alias for nl_handle is kept for backwards compatibility.
In order for the interface to become more thread safe, the error
handling was revised to no longer depend on a static errno and
error string buffer.
This patch converts all error paths to return a libnl specific
error code which can be translated to a error message using
nl_geterror(int error). The functions nl_error() and
nl_get_errno() are therefore obsolete.
This change required various sets of function prototypes to be
changed in order to return an error code, the most prominent
are:
struct nl_cache *foo_alloc_cache(...);
changed to:
int foo_alloc_cache(..., struct nl_cache **);
struct nl_msg *foo_build_request(...);
changed to:
int foo_build_request(..., struct nl_msg **);
struct foo *foo_parse(...);
changed to:
int foo_parse(..., struct foo **);
This pretty much only leaves trivial allocation functions to
still return a pointer object which can still return NULL to
signal out of memory.
This change is a serious API and ABI breaker, sorry!
