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Revision 28633514afd68afa77ed2fa34fa53626837bf2d5 authored by Alexey Kuznetsov on 10 February 2006, 00:40:58 UTC, committed by David S. Miller on 10 February 2006, 00:43:41 UTC
When a netlink message is not related to a netlink socket,
it is issued by kernel socket with pid 0. Netlink "pid" has nothing
to do with current->pid. I called it incorrectly, if it was named "port",
the confusion would be avoided.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tip revision: 28633514afd68afa77ed2fa34fa53626837bf2d5 authored by Alexey Kuznetsov on 10 February 2006, 00:40:58 UTC
[NETLINK]: illegal use of pid in rtnetlink
Tip revision: 2863351
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