| .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>. |
