Re: [libnftables PATCH] parsing: add interface to parse from file

[Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>]

On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 07:47:38PM +0100, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote:
> On 2 January 2014 14:52, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> wrote:
> >
> > Please, rework this to pass a file descriptor instead so it's
> > consistent with _fprintf API and we can use it with pipes as well.
> 
> Should I do a fread() based input?:
> 
> size_t fread(void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, FILE *stream);
> 
> If so, the API func may look like:
> 
> int nft_chain_fparse(struct nft_chain *c, type, size_t size, FILE *stream);

That interface is fine.

> And then I will need to malloc(size).

Please, explain why you need this.