Re: Xtables2 Netlink spec

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On Monday 2010-11-29 13:55, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
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>Suspending the process in the middle of the dump is a strange scenario. If you
>did this accidentally, then you can notice it since you hit EAGAIN over and
>over again, so you can kill the dumper manually.

Though since frontend programs like iptables automatically retry on -EAGAIN,
the user won't see it.

>A user-space process that stops in the middle of a dump must be considered
>buggy, you have to fix your user-space program.

Short of misscheduling of processes on behalf of the kernel ;-)

So barring process using -EAGAIN it is, then.
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