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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo@debian.org>
Cc: James Feeney <james@nurealm.net>,
	Netfilter Development Mailing list
	<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: reject statement - "crazy" parse error?
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 11:11:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161028091120.GA3374@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOkSjBgd0UJzg3Xp-ub4twebDmHdVJ25e5GkWEw5h2XUmQxKxQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 11:07:24AM +0200, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote:
> On 26 October 2016 at 20:50, James Feeney <james@nurealm.net> wrote:
[...]
> > Well, that's not good, because something changed, from "No such file or
> > directory" to "Operation not supported", but it is still not right.  Of course,
> > in both cases, the error messages are "useless", not saying *what* file, and not
> > saying *what* operation.
> >
> 
> Yes, the error reporting in the 'nft -f' situation is something to improve,
> specially with kernel reported errors.
> This is even worse in the case of nested includes.

Just for the record: I have a patch to solve this. We need to augment
the netlink error reporting infrastructure, if I add this into the
netlink core (which is where this improved error reporting
infrastructure belongs) it may take a little while though, and a bit
of code in userspace.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-28  9:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-26  1:30 reject statement - "crazy" parse error? James Feeney
2016-10-26  7:00 ` Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
2016-10-26 18:50   ` James Feeney
2016-10-28  9:07     ` Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
2016-10-28  9:11       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2016-10-28 16:33       ` James Feeney
2016-10-28 19:16       ` James Feeney

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