Describe
Low-level socket interface. Provides all the usual socket does, can be used in poll/select, doesn’t create any implicit threads.
Provides two additional methods: * get_protocol_id() – resolve generic netlink proto * get() – receive and parse netlink messages
Bind the socket and performs generic netlink proto lookup. The proto parameter is a string, like “TASKSTATS”, msg_class is a class to parse messages with.
Resolve generic netlink protocol – takes a string as the only parameter, return integer proto ID