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genl: generic netlink utility frontend

Command to display genl manual in Linux: $ man 8 genl

NAME

genl - generic netlink utility frontend

SYNOPSIS

genl [ -s[tatistics] ] [ -d[etails] ] [ -r[aw] ] OBJECT

genl { -V[ersion] | -h[elp] }

OBJECT := { ctrl CTRL_OPTS }

CTRL_OPTS := { help | list | monitor | get PARMS }

PARMS := { name NAME | id ID }

DESCRIPTION

The genl utility provides a simple frontend to the generic netlink library. Although it's designed to support multiple OBJECTs, for now only the ctrl object is available, which is used to query the generic netlink controller.

ctrl

The generic netlink controller can be queried in various ways:

help: This command just prints a help text for the ctrl object.
list: Show the registered netlink users.
monitor: Listen for generic netlink notifications.
get: Query the controller for a given user, identified either by name or id.

OPTIONS

genl supports the following options.

-h, -help: Show summary of options.
-V, -Version: Show version of program.
-s, -stats, -statistics: Show object statistics.
-d, -details: Show object details.
-r, -raw: Dump raw output only.

AUTHOR

genl was written by Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi [at] cyberus.ca>.

This manual page was written by Petr Sabata <contyk [at] redhat.com>.