From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Subham Pal <subhampal789@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Atomic ruleset update through libnftables
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:57:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aZ2gT3iiXfxZT2en@strlen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHeizqEqDQYVs6mBOC4GPhBT6h9ikfkhYD455jUDXvjfQQ-ZRA@mail.gmail.com>
Subham Pal <subhampal789@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am writing a firewall program and intending to configure nftables
> using libnftables userspace library. The plan is to use
> nft_run_cmd_from_buffer function call, passing JSOn input to its
> buffer.
>
> If I provide a set of rule updates to this function, will they be
> applied atomically? The manpage does not seem to elaborate on this.
Yes, its applied atomically. You can validate by running 'nft monitor'
on another terminal, this will show you when a new generation/config
arrives, and what was added/removed as part of the update.
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2026-02-24 10:54 Atomic ruleset update through libnftables Subham Pal
2026-02-24 12:57 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
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