Re: [nft] using `nft -i' as user shell

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Am 26. September 2014 19:18:57 MESZ, schrieb Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo.borrero.glez@xxxxxxxxx>:
>Hi!
>
>I've playing with the use of `nft -i' as user shell.
>This would be handy to let some users log just to manage the nftables
>ruleset.
>
>In some situations, the CLI may block (or takes long time to return),
>and the only way to kill the running command is hitting CTRL+C, which
>also kills the interactive mode, which logs out the user of the
>system.
>
>Cases with this issue:
> * massive listings.
> * listings with lots of DNS queries
> * monitor.
>
>A possible solution would be to implement a signal handler, somehow
>integrated with libreadline. However i'm totally ignorant if this is
>possible and/or how to do it.
>
>What do you think?

It sounds like the right solution and shouldn't be too hard :) Not within readline though, IIRC we do non-blocking I/O anyways, so it should be relatively easy.

>
>regards.


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