Re: ERROR target in /proc/net/ip_tables_targets

[Herve Eychenne <rv@wallfire.org>]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 06:20:06AM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Herve Eychenne wrote:

> > Yes, except than when you do a cat /proc/net/ip_tables_targets and
> > read "ERROR" at the end of the list, you get the strong (and
> > unpleasant) feeling that something went wrong and that the list may
> > not be complete (even if _you_ (netfilter developer) know it is).

> I never thought of it this way .. I actually had to laugh out about my
> ignorance not realizing what ERROR means to most people ;)

> > So (even if I understand your concerns at the time you wrote the
> > patch) this is IMHO not acceptable.
> > Please, let's not sacrifice "ignorant" user time and confidence for a
> > few duplicate lines of kernel code...

> Yes I totally understand your point, I'm going to fix it when I get
> around.

$ uname -a
Linux comet 2.6.4 #29 Thu Mar 18 19:42:39 CET 2004 i686 GNU/Linux

And it's still there. Is there patch? If yes, it has not been
submitted upstream...

 Herve

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