On Sat, 2006-25-03 at 23:52 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote: > No, we cannot have both passed. If we pass both a PID and a TGID and > then the code returns just the stats for the PID. > ok, that clears it then; i think you are ready to go. > > > > Also in regards to the nesting, isnt there a need for nla_nest_cancel in > > case of failures to add TLVs? > > > > I thought about it, but when I looked at the code of genlmsg_cancel() > and nla_nest_cancel(). It seemed that genlmsg_cancel() should > suffice. > If your policy is to never send a message if anything fails, then you are fine. What would be really useful now that you understand this, is if you can help extending/cleaning the document i sent you. Or send me a table of contents of how it would have flowed better for you. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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