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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
Cc: Netfilter Development Mailinglist <netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: fix all iptables problems with '!' (hopefully)
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 19:37:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E1C6FD6.8040603@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030107201643.GY9467@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org>

Harald Welte wrote:

>>What about if i convert all matches to only show "!" in boolean context 
>>in the helptexts and change check_inverse and what else might be
>>neccessary to enforce this ?
>>    
>>
>
>I think this is a wise idea.
>  
>
Since i have to touch a lot of helptexts anyway i thought it might be 
the time to unify their format.
Any wishes regarding this ?

Regards,
Patrick


>  
>
>>What about backward-compatibility ?
>>    
>>
>
>This is usually not my idea of being user-friendly... but considering
>how much trouble we've had with this over the last couple of months, I'm
>willing to sacrifice a bit of backwards compatibility.
>
>To everyone: Please feel free to protest.
>
>  
>

  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-08 18:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-06  1:31 iptables-save saves invalid negative --uid-owner expressions Costa Tsaousis
2003-01-06  2:02 ` Hervé Eychenne
2003-01-06  8:07   ` Bart De Schuymer
2003-01-06  8:15   ` [PATCH]: fix all iptables problems with "!" (hopefully) Patrick McHardy
2003-01-06 12:29     ` [PATCH]: fix all iptables problems with '!' (hopefully) Costa Tsaousis
2003-01-06 15:33       ` Patrick McHardy
2003-01-07 17:15         ` Harald Welte
2003-01-07 18:53           ` Patrick McHardy
2003-01-07 20:16             ` Harald Welte
2003-01-08 18:37               ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2003-01-06 12:34   ` iptables-save saves invalid negative --uid-owner expressions Harald Welte

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