[nft PATCH 3/8] libnftables: Introduce nft_ctx_set_error()

[Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx>]

Analogous to nft_ctx_set_output(), this allows to set a custom file
pointer for writing error messages to.

Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx>
---
 include/nftables.h          |  1 +
 include/nftables/nftables.h |  2 ++
 src/erec.c                  |  2 +-
 src/libnftables.c           | 16 +++++++++++++---
 4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/nftables.h b/include/nftables.h
index 3d96f2e3f10f4..1b368971bee9a 100644
--- a/include/nftables.h
+++ b/include/nftables.h
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ struct output_ctx {
 	unsigned int handle;
 	unsigned int echo;
 	FILE *output_fp;
+	FILE *error_fp;
 };
 
 struct nft_cache {
diff --git a/include/nftables/nftables.h b/include/nftables/nftables.h
index 8e59f2b2a59ab..1e9306822eb7e 100644
--- a/include/nftables/nftables.h
+++ b/include/nftables/nftables.h
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ bool nft_ctx_output_get_echo(struct nft_ctx *ctx);
 void nft_ctx_output_set_echo(struct nft_ctx *ctx, bool val);
 
 FILE *nft_ctx_set_output(struct nft_ctx *ctx, FILE *fp);
+FILE *nft_ctx_set_error(struct nft_ctx *ctx, FILE *fp);
+
 int nft_ctx_add_include_path(struct nft_ctx *ctx, const char *path);
 void nft_ctx_clear_include_paths(struct nft_ctx *ctx);
 
diff --git a/src/erec.c b/src/erec.c
index 3e1b7fd108a7e..226c51f552267 100644
--- a/src/erec.c
+++ b/src/erec.c
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ void erec_print(struct output_ctx *octx, const struct error_record *erec,
 	unsigned int i, end;
 	int l;
 	off_t orig_offset = 0;
-	FILE *f = octx->output_fp;
+	FILE *f = octx->error_fp;
 
 	if (!f)
 		return;
diff --git a/src/libnftables.c b/src/libnftables.c
index 8bf989b08cc54..d6622d51aba33 100644
--- a/src/libnftables.c
+++ b/src/libnftables.c
@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ struct nft_ctx *nft_ctx_new(uint32_t flags)
 	init_list_head(&ctx->cache.list);
 	ctx->flags = flags;
 	ctx->output.output_fp = stdout;
+	ctx->output.error_fp = stderr;
 
 	if (flags == NFT_CTX_DEFAULT)
 		nft_ctx_netlink_init(ctx);
@@ -200,6 +201,18 @@ FILE *nft_ctx_set_output(struct nft_ctx *ctx, FILE *fp)
 	return old;
 }
 
+FILE *nft_ctx_set_error(struct nft_ctx *ctx, FILE *fp)
+{
+	FILE *old = ctx->output.error_fp;
+
+	if (!fp || ferror(fp))
+		return NULL;
+
+	ctx->output.error_fp = fp;
+
+	return old;
+}
+
 bool nft_ctx_get_dry_run(struct nft_ctx *ctx)
 {
 	return ctx->check;
@@ -282,7 +295,6 @@ int nft_run_cmd_from_buffer(struct nft_ctx *nft, char *buf, size_t buflen)
 	LIST_HEAD(msgs);
 	size_t nlbuflen;
 	void *scanner;
-	FILE *fp;
 	char *nlbuf;
 
 	nlbuflen = max(buflen + 1, strlen(buf) + 2);
@@ -297,9 +309,7 @@ int nft_run_cmd_from_buffer(struct nft_ctx *nft, char *buf, size_t buflen)
 	if (nft_run(nft, nft->nf_sock, scanner, &state, &msgs) != 0)
 		rc = -1;
 
-	fp = nft_ctx_set_output(nft, stderr);
 	erec_print_list(&nft->output, &msgs, nft->debug_mask);
-	nft_ctx_set_output(nft, fp);
 	scanner_destroy(scanner);
 	iface_cache_release();
 	free(nlbuf);
-- 
2.16.1

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