From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: ctnetlink questions Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 22:20:06 +0200 Sender: netfilter-devel-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <3F944376.6040903@trash.net> References: <3F942CB6.5060005@trash.net> <20031020183741.GB20288@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org> <20031020194147.GA11786@balabit.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Harald Welte , Henrik Nordstrom , Netfilter Development Mailinglist Return-path: To: Balazs Scheidler In-Reply-To: <20031020194147.GA11786@balabit.hu> Errors-To: netfilter-devel-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org Hi Balazs, Balazs Scheidler wrote: >Sorry to jump into the conversation, it just occurred something I've read >about relayfs: > Suggestions are always welcome. >quoting from the announcement: > >"relayfs is a filesystem designed to provide an efficient mechanism for >tools and facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space >to user space. Full details can be found in Documentation/filesystems/ >relayfs.txt. The current version can always be found at >http://www.opersys.com/relayfs." > >This _might_ be of interest when complete tables are to be dumped, though >the ctnetlink based interface is better when the userspace app provides more >specific queries. > I believe we should stick to a single consistent interface for user comfort. Best regards, Patrick