From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ralf Subject: iptables return code 256 Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:33:48 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:45725 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753716AbZBTUeA (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:34:00 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Lac4M-0001th-Fz for netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:33:58 +0000 Received: from p57a2d807.dip.t-dialin.net ([87.162.216.7]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:33:58 +0000 Received: from rm by p57a2d807.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:33:58 +0000 Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Sometimes an insert operation (-I) fails and iptables returns 256. Under which circumstances can iptables give a return code 256 ? (I guess it happens when an internal resource is in locked state when user issues the iptables command, right?)