Re: Text based filesystem interfaces (instead of netlink)

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Hi there,

On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote:

> * G.W. Haywood <ged@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> >
> > > ... I wondered why netfilter doesn't do the kernel interface
> > > entirely via an synthetic filesystem (or maybe within sysfs).  ...
> >
> > Performance?
>
> Really ?
> How often are the netfilter rules touched ? More than once a day ?
> And is it really that much more expensive to call sscanf() than
> first creating the netlink packages and later parsing them again ?

It was just a suggestion.

http://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter/2007-July/069325.html

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73,
Ged.
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