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Reputation: 875

How can I use a NETLINK socket to data from kernel space in PYTHON?

How can I use a NETLINK socket to data from kernel space in PYTHON?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 8042

Answers (2)

tMC
tMC

Reputation: 19355

import socket
sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_NETLINK, socket.SOCK_RAW)
sock.bind((0,0))
sock.send(<nlmsghdr>)
sock.recv()

Upvotes: 4

thkala
thkala

Reputation: 86443

I believe that the socket Python module has had support for AF_NETLINK sockets since Python 2.5 or so, although I have never used it. There are a few projects out there that use it and can serve as an example:

Searching Google for /usr/bin/python af_netlink comes up with a few more hits, although I will admit that most are not really useful.

Upvotes: 3

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