Hi, On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:27:41PM +0100, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > Has that disclaimer always been in libnfnetlink home page[*]? > > It is the first time I see it. > > I have a userspace filter[†] working with it, and it currently works well. > > If I remove -lnfnetlink from the link command, I get just one undefined > reference to symbol 'nfnl_rcvbufsiz'. It is used only if there is a command > line option to set the buffer size to a given size, to avoid enobufs. For the > rest, the daemon uses libnetfilter_queue. > > Should I rewrite that? How? Probably, we should rewrite that sentence to: "For new software, please consider using libmnl instead." which is actually the intention. libnetfilter_queue also provides an API that combines well with libmnl. There is no plans to remove libnfnetlink anytime soon, it's still being used by netfilter userspace software.
