On Thursday 2009-01-15 17:03, Patrick McHardy wrote: > Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> On Thursday 2009-01-15 16:54, Patrick McHardy wrote: >>>>> Agreed. The text-based interface seems to me like yet-another-interface >>>>> that users may (ab)use (like /proc/net/nf_conntrack, I have seen people >>>>> polling from it to display information, this was OK in the early days). >>>>> Following this basis, one may come and implement another text-based >>>>> interface to display the rule-set in the kernel and so on. >>>> But is there an equivalent user tool and interface at this time >>>> to obtain the same information? >>> No that I know of, but that doesn't matter as long as nobody has a >>> need for it. >>> >> As a developer of Xtables modules I have a need ;-) > > That was one of my first thoughts, it looks mainly useful for > developers. And I'm not very fond of the idea of adding almost > 300 lines of segfile beauty for that. > Then you probably won't like it if I say that the same logic is needed if I shall make the existing proc-files multi-nfproto aware. -- 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
