hakurei/internal/uevent/uevent.go

// Package uevent provides userspace client for consuming events from a
// NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT socket, as well as helpers for supplementing
// events received from the kernel.
package uevent

import (
	"syscall"

	"hakurei.app/internal/netlink"
)

type (
	// Recoverable is satisfied by errors that are safe to recover from.
	Recoverable interface{ recoverable() }
	// Nontrivial is satisfied by errors preferring a JSON encoding.
	Nontrivial interface{ nontrivial() }
)

// Conn represents a NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT socket.
type Conn struct{ conn *netlink.Conn }

// Close closes the underlying socket.
func (c *Conn) Close() error { return c.conn.Close() }

// Dial returns the address of a newly connected [Conn].
func Dial() (*Conn, error) {
	// kernel group is hard coded in lib/kobject_uevent.c, undocumented
	c, err := netlink.Dial(syscall.NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT, 1)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	return &Conn{c}, err
}