Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Tuesday 2008-07-29 09:32, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: >> I just realized that iproute may use this, however, it does not since it >> keeps their own internal copy of the header files. Anyway, we should not >> break the ABI because that would break iproute's ipt - actually, I >> remember that such thing happened long time ago. >> So, apart from your addon thing, I don't see any other client for the >> xtables.h and you can also keep an internal copy of it. > > iproute's ipt has been discussed; patchesh ave been submitted by me, > but it was not merged yet. > More projects than just Xtables-addons can use xtables.h -- > xt_layer7 already compiles with it, ipt_ACCOUNT is just a blink away. xtables.h also requires libiptc/libxtc.h which is, AFAIK, a header of the internal iptables' library - not initially intended for external use. Well, after all, it's ugly but it's not that bad as it only allows people use the extension plugin API. I have committed your patch. BTW, do we support C++ extensions for iptables? Hm, really? -- "Los honestos son inadaptados sociales" -- Les Luthiers -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
