From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Juergen Borleis <jbe@pengutronix.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iptables: change large file support handling
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 16:46:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171004144606.GA22714@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201710041639.23481.jbe@pengutronix.de>
On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 04:39:23PM +0200, Juergen Borleis wrote:
> Hi Pablo,
>
> On Wednesday 04 October 2017 16:14:58 Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > > The configure script handles the "--*-largefile" parameter badly. It
> > > defaults to large file support if not given and always disables
> > > largefile support if given (and it doesn't matter if 'enable' or
> > > 'disable' was used)
> >
> > It seems the default behaviour for a while has been to enable
> > largefile by default.
> >
> > Then, someone came in to add this --disable-largefile configure time
> > option, see:
> >
> > commit 967cb7106f0f61cd7b8fbb10bc2451a3f7372a43
> > Author: Karl Hiramoto <karl@hiramoto.org>
> > Date: Mon May 10 17:50:41 2010 +0200
> >
> > iptables: optionally disable largefile support
> >
> > So I would just fix --enable-* --disable-*.
> >
> > Would you follow up on this? Let me know, thanks.
>
> With my change the default is still "enabled" and you can disable it on
> demand.
I'm going to remove this from your log message: "It defaults to large
file support if not given", when I read this I thought this was the
problem.
> To have still support for "disable on demand" makes sense for some
> small 32 bit embedded systems.
Sure, this knob is useful, not questioning this, and it needs to be
fixed.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-04 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-28 8:59 [PATCH] iptables: change large file support handling Juergen Borleis
2017-10-04 14:14 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2017-10-04 14:39 ` Juergen Borleis
2017-10-04 14:46 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2017-10-04 14:52 ` Juergen Borleis
2017-10-04 15:09 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
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