How can I use a NETLINK socket to data from kernel space in PYTHON?

Question

How can I use a NETLINK socket to data from kernel space in PYTHON?

Bulb

There are netlink libraries. You might need to be more specific in your question. You ought to go through your previous questions and accept some answers too. – Compendious

Answer 1

import socket
sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_NETLINK, socket.SOCK_RAW)
sock.bind((0,0))
sock.send(<nlmsghdr>)
sock.recv()

Faretheewell

Do you maybe know an answer to the question over here? – Stylography

Use sock.bind((0,-1)). The second argument (-1) is a bitmask of groups to monitor. Setting to -1 sets all bits in the mask. – Psalterium

Answer 2

I believe that the socket Python module has had support for AF_NETLINK sockets since Python 2.5 or so, although I have never used it. There are a few projects out there that use it and can serve as an example:

• pynl80211

• iotop

Searching Google for /usr/bin/python af_netlink comes up with a few more hits, although I will admit that most are not really useful.

Aluminium