Re: [PATCH] ss: Make leading ":" always optional for sport and dport

[David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>]

On 2/14/21 1:09 AM, Thayne McCombs wrote:
> Doh! Sorry about that, here it is with the sign-off.
> 
> -- >8 --

Don't put text here.

> 
> The sport and dport conditions in expressions were inconsistent on
> whether there should be a ":" at the beginning of the port when only a
> port was provided depending on the family. The link and netlink
> families required a ":" to work. The vsock family required the ":"
> to be absent. The inet and inet6 families work with or without a leading
> ":".
> 
> This makes the leading ":" optional in all cases, so if sport or dport
> are used, then it works with a leading ":" or without one, as inet and
> inet6 did.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thayne McCombs <astrothayne@gmail.com>
> ---

put extra comments here

>  misc/ss.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> 

Also, put iproute2-next in the subject line along with a version number.

applied to iproute2-next.