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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: netfilter: nf_conntrack: show helper and class in /proc/net/nf_conntrack_expect
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:43:31 +0100
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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Wednesday 2010-01-20 20:18, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
>> commit 8a96ae7fda648925254899ad997d5fe3984d3cf6
>> Author: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
>> Date:   Wed Jan 20 17:38:16 2010 +0100
>>
>>    netfilter: nf_conntrack: show helper and class in /proc/net/nf_conntrack_expect
>>    
>>    Make the output a bit more informative by showing the helper an expectation
>>    belongs to and the expectation class.
>>    
>>    Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
> 
> Should not we extend on conntrack(8) instead?

Yeah, I've been planning on doing that as well. Especially the
expectation support is kind of lacking - it has a lot more
information than those shown. But I think having this available
through /proc is still useful.