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

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.

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genl was written by Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>.

This manual page was written by Petr Sabata <contyk@redhat.com>.