From: Pablo Neira <pablo@eurodev.net>
To: Henning Peters <hpeters@math.uni-goettingen.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: ip(6)_tables.h: return type difference in ip(6)t_get_target
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 00:54:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4320C10B.6000306@eurodev.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <61424.192.35.17.21.1126184669.squirrel@mail.piranho.net>
Henning Peters wrote:
> This software is being written in c++. I want to avoid using the
> command-line to talk to iptables for efficiency. Including iptables
> headers and linking to libiptables seemed reasonable for me. But compiling
> with g++ (gcc version 3.3.4 (pre 3.3.5 20040809)) and linking to the
> c-libs (extern "C" stuff) gave me a compile error:
Two comments:
a) The internal library used by iptables (libiptc) is undocumented and
its use is discouraged.
b) iptables is entirely written in C, linking libiptc to C++ code isn't
a good a idea.
So, you should call iptables via system(). It isn't great but you'll
have less problems.
--
Pablo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-08 22:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-08 13:04 ip(6)_tables.h: return type difference in ip(6)t_get_target Henning Peters
2005-09-08 22:54 ` Pablo Neira [this message]
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2005-09-09 8:15 Henning Peters
2005-09-09 8:49 ` Patrick Schaaf
2005-09-09 9:03 ` Patrick Schaaf
2005-09-09 10:02 ` Henning Peters
2005-09-09 10:17 ` Patrick Schaaf
2005-09-09 10:55 ` Henning Peters
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