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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Eric Leblond <eric@regit.org>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [nftables PATCH] rule: display rule handle as comment
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 15:53:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130521135328.GA5301@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1369091340-29211-1-git-send-email-eric@regit.org>

Hi Eric,

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 01:09:00AM +0200, Eric Leblond wrote:
> Knowing the rule handle is necessary to be able to delete a single
> rule. It was not displayed till now in the output and it was thus
> impossible to remove a single rule.
> This patch modify the listing output to add a comment containing
> the handle.

Thanks for the patch.

Could you add some option, eg. -a/--handle, so the handle is shown
only if we invoke:

nft -a list table filter

We also support:

nft list table filter > rule-set-file
nft -f rule-set-file

And the handle number will not be of any use there.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-21 13:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-20 23:09 [nftables PATCH] rule: display rule handle as comment Eric Leblond
2013-05-21 13:53 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2013-05-30 14:22   ` [nftables PATCH] rule: add flag to " Eric Leblond
2013-05-31 11:11     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2013-05-21 19:06 ` [nftables PATCH] rule: " Patrick McHardy
2013-05-22 13:53 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2013-05-22 15:35   ` Patrick McHardy

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