Question: netlink_unicast and thread

[Chris Wright]

* Linux (linux at linuon.com) wrote:
> "Error receiving netlink packet (Resource temporarily unavailable)"
> It seems that netlink is only accessible from main process context.
> Since getpid() returns main process ID there's no way to let
> netlink know it is being called from thread(s) of the process.
> I tried thread ID by calling pthread_self(), didn't work either.
> To repro same problem with original code(no threads), I moved
> audit_get_reply() stuff in auditd.c to thread loop in auditd-event.c.
> It was same. Same error.
> 
> Could anyone out there enlighten me how to get threads working
> with netlink?

Use gettid()?

thanks,
-chris
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