From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH nft] mnl: check for NLM_F_DUMP_INTR when dumping object lists
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 10:54:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140706085457.GA3766@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8587ed64-b49a-4e3f-abd3-d274cfe0fce6@email.android.com>
On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 07:18:51PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> On 4. Juli 2014 12:32:22 MESZ, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> wrote:
> >This flag allows to detect that an update has ocurred while dumping
> >any of the object lists.
> >
> ><cmdline>:1:1-17: Error: Could not receive rules from kernel:
> >Interrupted system call
> >list table filter
> >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> >Basically, the user has to retry to make sure that it saves the current
> >rule-set.
>
> Shouldn't we automatically handle this? Transient failure is really
> bad for many reasons.
OK, I'm going to extend this so it indefinitely retries until it
fetches the entire rule-set. Thanks Patrick.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-06 8:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-04 10:32 [PATCH nft] mnl: check for NLM_F_DUMP_INTR when dumping object lists Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-07-05 17:18 ` Patrick McHardy
2014-07-06 8:54 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
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