Aside from the rather unconventional formatting, if those initialization functions fail we've either released a completely broken iptables or the wrong libraries are chosen by the loader. In both cases, the version number is not really interesting. While being at it, fix indenting of the first exit() call. Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx> --- iptables/xtables-standalone.c | 12 ++++-------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/iptables/xtables-standalone.c b/iptables/xtables-standalone.c index f4d40cda6ae43..54c70c5429766 100644 --- a/iptables/xtables-standalone.c +++ b/iptables/xtables-standalone.c @@ -49,10 +49,8 @@ xtables_main(int family, const char *progname, int argc, char *argv[]) xtables_globals.program_name = progname; ret = xtables_init_all(&xtables_globals, family); if (ret < 0) { - fprintf(stderr, "%s/%s Failed to initialize xtables\n", - xtables_globals.program_name, - xtables_globals.program_version); - exit(1); + fprintf(stderr, "%s: Failed to initialize xtables\n", progname); + exit(1); } #if defined(ALL_INCLUSIVE) || defined(NO_SHARED_LIBS) init_extensions(); @@ -61,10 +59,8 @@ xtables_main(int family, const char *progname, int argc, char *argv[]) #endif if (nft_init(&h, family) < 0) { - fprintf(stderr, "%s/%s Failed to initialize nft: %s\n", - xtables_globals.program_name, - xtables_globals.program_version, - strerror(errno)); + fprintf(stderr, "%s: Failed to initialize nft: %s\n", + xtables_globals.program_name, strerror(errno)); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } -- 2.33.0