From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Herve Eychenne Subject: Re: ERROR target in /proc/net/ip_tables_targets Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 21:17:57 +0100 Sender: netfilter-devel-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <20040325201757.GN1115@eychenne.org> References: <20031127042854.GE1084@eychenne.org> <20031127050742.GB2740@eychenne.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Netfilter Development Return-path: To: Patrick McHardy Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Errors-To: netfilter-devel-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.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 --=20 _ (=B0=3D Herv=E9 Eychenne //) v_/_ WallFire project: http://www.wallfire.org/