Re: [nft PATCH RFC] libnftables: Make output_fp default to /dev/null

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Hi Phil,

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 08:14:15PM +0100, Phil Sutter wrote:
> Ensure output_fp is never NULL which allows to drop all respective
> checks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx>
> ---
> Hi Pablo,
> 
> This is how I understood your suggestion to use /dev/null. While
> implementing it though, I had an idea for a much simpler solution,
> namely just rejecting NULL in nft_set_output() and therefore forcing the
> application to deal with opening /dev/null if no output is desired. What
> do you think about that?

I like your idea of rejecting NULL.
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