netlink-socket: New function for draining the receive buffer.

This will be used in an upcoming patch.

Reviewed by Justin Pettit.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/netlink-socket.c b/lib/netlink-socket.c
index 8e81da9c..9e3dd977 100644
--- a/lib/netlink-socket.c
+++ b/lib/netlink-socket.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 #include "netlink-protocol.h"
 #include "ofpbuf.h"
 #include "poll-loop.h"
+#include "socket-util.h"
 #include "stress.h"
 #include "vlog.h"
 
@@ -446,6 +447,13 @@ recv:
     return 0;
 }
 
+/* Drain all the messages currently in 'sock''s receive queue. */
+int
+nl_sock_drain(struct nl_sock *sock)
+{
+    return drain_rcvbuf(sock->fd);
+}
+
 /* Starts a Netlink "dump" operation, by sending 'request' to the kernel via
  * 'sock', and initializes 'dump' to reflect the state of the operation.
  *