On Wednesday 2008-11-05 19:25, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote: > On Sat, 1 Nov 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> On Friday 2008-10-31 19:54, Rick Jones wrote: >> > > >> > > iptables-save | grep ^- | wc -l >> > >> > Here is where I cop to being a luddite who prefers straight C to calling >> > system() :) >> >> But there is no C library. And libiptc is so strongly internal that >> it does not fall under libraries-to-use. > > I don't see why not to use libiptc. Its been one of the most stable / > less-changed through the years... > > I'm using libiptc quite extensivly in IPTables::libiptc Perl CPAN module. Hm yeah. The API might be ok, but the source is ugly. Hence the recent slew of patches. I'm still thinking how to pull this off so that it gets even less ugly, less big (it is essentially compiled twice), and then make it available as a standard library. -- 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
