From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: libnetfilter_queue and libnetfilter_conntrack API questions Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:52:58 +0200 Message-ID: <47FCD84A.7030400@trash.net> References: <47FCCD6C.6050409@gmail.com> <47FCD6AA.8030205@netfilter.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Thomas Mader , Netfilter Development Mailinglist To: Pablo Neira Ayuso Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:49601 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752269AbYDIOxF (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Apr 2008 10:53:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: <47FCD6AA.8030205@netfilter.org> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > The events do not include the ID, this is how it goes as for now. > Actually I'm not a big fun of the ID. > > @Patrick: I don't remember exactly the reason why we decided to keep the > ID there, and if we have decided to do so, it seems inconsistent to me > not to include it in the events. I agree. I guess the reason why its not sent on events is that it was originally only introduced (IIRC, I might be confusing it with the ordered list on second thought) for dumps. The reason why we kept it at all is that people are already using it as unique identifier, we only changed the uniqueness to mean "unique at any given point in time", but not over time. I guess the logical thing to do would be to also include it in events. I know some people are using patches to do this already.