Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx> wrote: > Expected behaviour in both variants is: > > * Print help without error, append extension help if -m and/or -j > options are present > * Indicate lack of permissions in an error message for anything else > > With iptables-nft, this was broken basically from day 1. Shared use of > do_parse() then somewhat broke legacy: it started complaining about > inability to create a lock file. > > Fix this by making iptables-nft assume extension revision 0 is present > if permissions don't allow to verify. This is consistent with legacy. > > Second part is to exit directly after printing help - this avoids having > to make the following code "nop-aware" to prevent privileged actions. Thanks! Reviewed-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>