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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libiptc.c blob parser
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 06:21:25 +0200
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Paul C. Diem wrote:
> The patch I posted earlier assumed that the rule's chain was the last one on
> the chain list and used the 32-bit comefrom field to hold the offset of the
> chain list entry.
> 
> This improved patch uses the chain_iterator_cur handle field to more
> accurately get the chain, uses the counters field cast as a pointer to hold
> a pointer directly to the chain list entry and only bothers to load the
> pointer for the first rule in each chain (since that's the only one we need
> it in).

I'm not very familiar with that code, so I wonder how that affects
the counter values if you specifially set them or use iptables-save
--counters.