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diff --git a/man/man8/genl.8 b/man/man8/genl.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b9de594 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man8/genl.8 @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +.TH GENL 8 "29 Oct 2015" "iproute2" "Linux" +.SH NAME +genl \- generic netlink utility frontend +.SH SYNOPSIS +.in +8 +.ti -8 +.BR genl " [ " -s [ tatistics "] ] [ " -d [ etails "] ] [ " -r [ aw "] ] " OBJECT + +.ti -8 +.BR genl " { " -V [ ersion "] | " -h [ elp "] }" + +.ti -8 +.IR OBJECT " := { " +.B ctrl +.IR CTRL_OPTS " }" + +.ti -8 +.IR CTRL_OPTS " := { " +.BR help " | " list " | " monitor " | " get +.IR PARMS " }" + +.ti -8 +.IR PARMS " := { " +.B name +.IR NAME " | " +.B id +.IR ID " }" +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.B genl +utility provides a simple frontend to the generic netlink library. Although it's +designed to support multiple +.IR OBJECT s, +for now only the +.B ctrl +object is available, which is used to query the generic netlink controller. +.SS ctrl +The generic netlink controller can be queried in various ways: +.TP +.B help +This command just prints a help text for the +.B ctrl +object. +.TP +.B list +Show the registered netlink users. +.TP +.B monitor +Listen for generic netlink notifications. +.TP +.B get +Query the controller for a given user, identified either by +.BR name " or " id . +.SH OPTIONS +genl supports the following options. +.TP +.B \-h, \-help +Show summary of options. +.TP +.B \-V, \-Version +Show version of program. +.TP +.B \-s, \-stats, \-statistics +Show object statistics. +.TP +.B \-d, \-details +Show object details. +.TP +.B \-r, \-raw +Dump raw output only. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR ip (8) +.br +.SH AUTHOR +genl was written by Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>. +.PP +This manual page was written by Petr Sabata <contyk@redhat.com>. |