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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH nft 3/3] src: add nft_ctx_netlink_init()
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 12:17:33 +0200
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On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 12:14:07PM +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> Add these two new functions to set up netlink sockets in the global
> context structure.

We can alternatively call this nft_ctx_netlink_auto() if prefer.

I'm just trying to skip the type/flag field for nft_ctx_alloc().

Does this look acceptable to you to have this extra API to request
libnftables to deal with IO details too?