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From: Herve Eychenne <rv@wallfire.org>
Subject: Re: [iptables 1.3.0 / libiptc patch] sort chains by hooknum/names
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 03:07:25 +0100
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On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:21:14PM +0100, Olaf Rempel wrote:

> hi list

> >From 1.3.0 all chain names were alphabetically sorted when listing tab=
les.
> A user-defined chain 'AAA' is listed before the buildin chain "INPUT", =
and=20
> "FORWARD" is listed before "INPUT".

> I've created two patches to revert it to the "old" behavior:
> first buildin chains, sorted by hooknum, than userdefined chains, sorte=
d by name.

Appart from the fact that it restores the old behavior (and avoids
breakage of some badly written scripts or apps), can you give a
single reason why the listing should be sorted?

Why not sort the output of a lot of commands (like lsof, netstat, ps,
etc.) then?  Hint: probably because there is no interest in wasting CPU
time for this.

 Herve

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