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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: [PATCH] socket: Do not use AF_NETLINK in __opensock
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 16:28:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ilwq6bu1.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)

It is not possible to use interface ioctls with netlink sockets
in all Linux kernels.

---
 socket/opensock.c | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/socket/opensock.c b/socket/opensock.c
index ff94d27a61..cf4731abf1 100644
--- a/socket/opensock.c
+++ b/socket/opensock.c
@@ -29,12 +29,6 @@ __opensock (void)
   int type = SOCK_DGRAM | SOCK_CLOEXEC;
   int fd;
 
-#ifdef AF_NETLINK
-  fd = __socket (AF_NETLINK, type, 0);
-  if (fd >= 0)
-    return fd;
-#endif
-
   fd = __socket (AF_UNIX, type, 0);
   if (fd >= 0)
     return fd;


             reply	other threads:[~2021-11-17 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-17 15:28 Florian Weimer [this message]
2021-11-17 15:40 ` Andreas Schwab

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