Re: libxtables: prefix names and order it #1

[Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Tuesday 2009-01-27 15:29, jamal wrote:
>> On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 09:19 -0500, jamal wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, no problem - let me know when you are done.
>> BTW, it would be nice if you commit those patches to the git tree and i
>> pull them.
> 
> The proposed changes are at
> 
> 	git://dev.medozas.de/iptables master
> 
> 	92 files changed, 1063 insertions(+), 1135 deletions(-)
> 
> They are pretty broad, but repetitive.
> 
> There are a few functions left. Like exit_error, which still has ties
> to the origin program (iptables, ip6tables), to do option freeing for
> example. Have not yet thought of how to resolve that. Ideas welcome.

I think that you can move functions that are common to iptables and
ip6tables like exit_error(), merge_options(), ... and so on to
libxtables. I think that the purpose of this libxtables library should be:

1) To provide an API for jamal's tc ipt and your xtables-addon thing
(anyone willing to compile their .so files without recompiling iptables).
2) To factorize some code which is common to iptables and ip6tables.

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