commit e92539843a0c7e5116254382626cce226bf2135e
Author: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Date: Thu Oct 23 13:46:16 2008 +0200
libnl: nfqueue: add nfqueue specific socket allocation function
nfqueue users usually send verdict messages from the receive callback.
When waiting for ACKs, the receive callback might be called again
recursively until the stack blows up.
Add a nfqueue specific socket allocation function that automatically
disables ACKing for the socket.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
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!
Patrick McHardy
Thomas Graf