From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo.borrero.glez@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, pablo@netfilter.org
Subject: Re: [RFC nft PATCH] syntax: replace '=>' with '=:'
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 20:17:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140112201742.GC13545@macbook.localnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140112194132.7369.3907.stgit@nfdev.cica.es>
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 08:41:33PM +0100, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote:
> Almost all shell uses the '>' character as a key for redirecting
> stdout/stderr to a file.
> So, using it in the syntax means that the administrator is forced to scape the
> character, or look for other workaround.
>
> With this patch, '=>' is replaced with '=:', thus avoiding such situation.
I'm not opposed to this, but I like (despite the shell problematic) the =>
syntax better, so I'd suggest to just add an alternative syntax.
As further simplification, why not simply use ':'?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-12 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-12 19:41 [RFC nft PATCH] syntax: replace '=>' with '=:' Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
2014-01-12 20:17 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2014-01-12 20:28 ` Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
2014-01-12 21:24 ` Patrick McHardy
2014-01-12 21:47 ` Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
2014-01-12 21:55 ` Patrick McHardy
2014-01-13 10:44 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
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