GENL
Section: Linux (8)
Updated: 29 Oct 2015
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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.
SEE ALSO
ip(8)
AUTHOR
genl was written by Jamal Hadi Salim <
hadi@cyberus.ca>.
This manual page was written by Petr Sabata <contyk@redhat.com>.