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.
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>
>
next prev parent 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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