Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx> wrote: > > grammar bug. > > > > Pablo, Phil, others, can you remind me why we never did: > > Because this would be followed up by: > > | Subject: Unable to create a table called "trace" > > Jokes aside: > > I think Pablo didn't like the obvious consequence of having to quote > *all* string types which are user-defined in output. He played with > keeping the quotes as part of the name, so they are sent to kernel and > in listing they would automatically appear quoted. I don't quite > remember why this was problematic, though. > > In general, shells eating the quotes is problematic and users may not be > aware of it. This includes scripts that mangle ruleset dumps by > accident, etc. (Not sure if it is really a problem as we quote some > strings already). Ok, but what if we just allow use of quotes in input? That would at least allow to use nft to delete/add to chains created by other tools.
