On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 11:07:24AM +0200, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote: > On 26 October 2016 at 20:50, James Feeney <james@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > > Well, that's not good, because something changed, from "No such file or > > directory" to "Operation not supported", but it is still not right. Of course, > > in both cases, the error messages are "useless", not saying *what* file, and not > > saying *what* operation. > > > > Yes, the error reporting in the 'nft -f' situation is something to improve, > specially with kernel reported errors. > This is even worse in the case of nested includes. Just for the record: I have a patch to solve this. We need to augment the netlink error reporting infrastructure, if I add this into the netlink core (which is where this improved error reporting infrastructure belongs) it may take a little while though, and a bit of code in userspace. -- 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