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From: Adam Nielsen <a.nielsen@shikadi.net>
Subject: Re: Avoiding multiple calls to xt_target.checkentry
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:03:45 +1000
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>> Thanks for the explanation!  So - to get it straight in my mind - the
>> checkentry function will be called multiple times while the trigger
>> exists,
>> but is the destroy function also called multiple times?  Or is checkentry
>> called whenever tables are created, but destroy only ever called once
>> when the
>> table is removed for the last time?
> 
> They will always be called an equal amount of times - each one
> once per target instance.

Great, thanks for the info (thanks Jan too!)  I'm working on a patch so I'll
post it when I think I've solved the issue correctly.

Cheers,
Adam.