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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: inbound connection problems when "netlink: test for all flags
 of the NLM_F_DUMP composite" commit applied
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:12:27 +0100
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On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 08:47:32PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday 2011-01-19 20:24, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 2011-01-19 17:54, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> >> 
> >> It looks like the authors' intentinos were to make NLM_F_MATCH not
> >> stop after a single entry has been found. So that sounds like dump,
> >> ok.
> >> 
> >> But NLM_F_ROOT does not quite strike me as a dump request. What if I
> >> wanted just a single item returned but still start at the root?
> >
> >Hmm... Does it say about starting at the root?:
> >
> >"          NLM_F_ROOT     Return the complete table instead of a
> >                          single entry."
> 
> I was referring to netlink.h which paraphrased that, perhaps
> too short:
> 
> #define NLM_F_ROOT      0x100   /* specify tree root    */
> 
> But the RFC description makes for a better wording: if NLM_F_ROOT is
> supposed to return "the complete table", how is it different from
> NLM_F_MATCH with a wildcard criteria?
> 
> |          NLM_F_MATCH    Return all entries matching criteria passed in
> |                         message content.

As I said, I'd prefer not to pretend I understand it, but, knowing
names of people around this, I'm also quite sure there was a purpose.
On the other hand, I'm not sure the names of flags and descriptions
weren't mixed while making it general for different subsystems.

BTW, don't we have in ip/tc many examples of duplicate options?

Jarek P.