Crate neli [−] [src]
Type safety for the weary netlink user
Rationale
The libc crate currently provides an interface for sockets but
the constants to configure the socket to do anything useful in netlink
are not included in the crate because they live in /usr/include/linux/netlink.h and friends.
As a result, doing anything with netlink in Rust is currently a bit of a headache.
This crate aims to define the necessary constants and wrap them in types to both take
advantage of the Rust type system and also avoid the need to pop open .h files
to find the information necessary to construct netlink messages.
Notes
This crate is currently under heavy development.
The cc crate is a build dependency to provide as much of a natively cross distribution
approach as possible regarding #defines in C. It is used to compile a C file that includes
the appropriate headers and exports them to the corresponding stdint.h types in C.
Modules
| err |
Error module |
| ffi |
C constants defined as types |
| genlhdr |
Genetlink (generic netlink) header and attribute helpers |
| nlhdr |
Top-level netlink header |
| socket |
Wrapper for |
Structs
| NlDeState |
Struct representing the necessary state to deserialize an object |
| NlSerState |
Struct representing the necessary state to serialize an object |
Traits
| Nl |
Trait defining basic actions required for netlink communication |