thanks greg,, a silly question......please have a look....... i create a socket to communicate to the user space app to listen to and responsible for loggin ... via my_sock=netlink_creat_sock() i create my own logging message format to send it via netlink interface. then how can i let my module know which process to bind it to? i mean to bind my socket to any user space application i need the pid of that one ,so at the very first time how can i initialize the binding process with user space application? i hope.. i am clear to u. please let me know if not....i wll try again. i 'd really appreciate any help. -- ........................ *MOHIT VERMA*