From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Leblond Subject: [nftables RFC PATCH]limit netlink message size during delete operation Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 01:12:33 +0200 Message-ID: <1380755553.6862.32.camel@tiger2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso To: Netfilter Devel Return-path: Received: from ks28632.kimsufi.com ([91.121.96.152]:50398 "EHLO ks28632.kimsufi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753104Ab3JBXMf (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Oct 2013 19:12:35 -0400 Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello, When working on the flush issue, I've observed that the deletion message was containing the whole the rule definition. This seems to be useless as only table, chain and handle number are used to delete a rule. The following patchset introduces a new function in libnftables to be able to only put only these identifiers in the deletion message. BR, -- Eric Leblond Blog: https://home.regit.org/