From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH nftables 0/8] add typeof keyword
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 22:55:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190817205554.iq7rfmvwzcugfmzc@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190817102351.x2s2vj5hgvsi5vak@salvia>
Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> wrote:
> I know I sent a RFC using typeof(), I wonder if you could just use the
> selector instead, it's a bit of a lot of type typeof() . typeof()
> probably.
>
> So this is left as this:
>
> type osf name
>
> in concatenations, like this:
>
> nft add set ip filter allowed "{ type ip daddr . tcp dport; }"
>
> Probably I would ask my sysadmin friends what they think.
Yes, please do, it would be good to get a non-developer perspective.
I'm very used to things like sizeof(), so typeof() felt natural to me.
Might be very un-intuitive for non-developers though, so it would be
good to get outside perspective.
Thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-17 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-16 14:42 [PATCH nftables 0/8] add typeof keyword Florian Westphal
2019-08-16 14:42 ` [PATCH nftables 1/8] src: libnftnl: run single-initcalls only once Florian Westphal
2019-08-16 14:42 ` [PATCH nftables 2/8] src: libnftnl: split nft_ctx_new/free Florian Westphal
2019-08-16 14:42 ` [PATCH nftables 3/8] src: store expr, not dtype to track data in sets Florian Westphal
2019-08-16 14:42 ` [PATCH nftables 4/8] src: parser: add syntax to provide bitsize for non-spcific types Florian Westphal
2019-08-16 14:42 ` [PATCH nftables 5/8] src: add "typeof" keyword Florian Westphal
2019-08-16 14:42 ` [PATCH nftables 6/8] src: add "typeof" print support Florian Westphal
2019-08-16 14:42 ` [PATCH nftables 7/8] src: netlink: remove assertion Florian Westphal
2019-08-16 14:42 ` [PATCH nftables 8/8] tests: add typeof test cases Florian Westphal
2019-08-17 10:23 ` [PATCH nftables 0/8] add typeof keyword Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-08-17 10:33 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-08-17 19:26 ` Florian Westphal
2019-08-17 20:55 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2019-08-18 14:33 ` Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
2019-08-26 9:49 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
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