XperiaSTE/android_hardware_libhardware_legacy — pull request #13 by Info4Geek (2014-11-16 12:25:16+00:00)
Title: uevent: Allow multiple uevent listeners from the same process

The netlink socket created by uevent_init sets the nl_pid to the
current PID. nl_pid must be unique per-process, however it does not
have to do with the PID. From the documentation:

"
For a user-space process, nl_pid
is usually the PID of the process owning the destination socket.
However, nl_pid identifies a netlink socket, not a process. If a
process owns several netlink sockets, then nl_pid can be equal to the
process ID only for at most one socket.
"

In use cases where a single process calls uevent_init more than one
time, the second one will always fail. This patch sets the nl_pid
to 0, which lets the kernel pick its own unique identifier as per the
documentation:

"
If the application sets it to 0, the kernel takes
care of assigning it. The kernel assigns the process ID to the first
netlink socket the process opens and assigns a unique nl_pid to every
netlink socket that the process subsequently creates.
"

The behavior stays the same for the first socket but will also succeed
in subsequent calls.

Change-Id: I6fa74adc9d5835ff39b86187799998111fc12001