Re: [PATCH iptables 2/2] xtables-translate: fix issue with quotes

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On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 06:22:49PM +0200, Pablo M. Bermudo Garay wrote:
> 2016-07-25 17:31 GMT+02:00 Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 05:48:34PM +0200, Pablo M. Bermudo Garay wrote:
> >> Some translations included escaped quotes when they were called from
> >> nft:
> >>
> >> $ sudo nft list ruleset
> >> table ip mangle {
> >>     chain FORWARD {
> >>         type filter hook forward priority -150; policy accept;
> >>         ct helper \"ftp\" counter packets 0 bytes 0
> >>                   ^^   ^^
> >>     }
> >> }
> >>
> >> This behavior is only correct when xlate functions are called from a
> >> xtables-translate command. This patch solves that issue if nft revision
> >> is using the field added to the xt_xlate struct with "xtables-translate:
> >> add new field to identify the caller" commit.
> >
> > Please, rebase this change on top of:
> >
> > http://git.netfilter.org/iptables/commit/?id=7a0992da44cfb6cab0ccd1beadcf326df8773552
> >
> > I'd suggest you add a new parameter for this, something like:
> >
> >         bool escape_quotes;
> >
> > Or is there use for this nft_compat field you propose out of this.
> 
> For the moment, the quotes issue is the only use I have found for the
> nft_compat field. So the escape_quotes boolean seems a good idea.

Great, I prefer then escape_quotes. We can rename this later on if it
turns out that we need this for something else.
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