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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/nl.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/nl.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -86,8 +86,13 @@ * This capability is indicated by * `%NL_CAPABILITY_NL_CONNECT_RETRY_GENERATE_PORT_ON_ADDRINUSE`. * + * @note nl_connect() creates and sets the file descriptor. You can setup the file + * descriptor yourself by creating and binding it, and then calling + * nl_socket_set_fd(). The result will be the same. + * * @see nl_socket_alloc() * @see nl_close() + * @see nl_socket_set_fd() * * @return 0 on success or a negative error code. * @@ -105,8 +110,8 @@ int nl_connect(struct nl_sock *sk, int protocol) flags |= SOCK_CLOEXEC; #endif - if (sk->s_fd != -1) - return -NLE_BAD_SOCK; + if (sk->s_fd != -1) + return -NLE_BAD_SOCK; sk->s_fd = socket(AF_NETLINK, SOCK_RAW | flags, protocol); if (sk->s_fd < 0) { |