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Subject: Re: Unable to create a chain called "trace"
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Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> wrote:
> In general, shells eating the quotes is problematic and users may not be
> aware of it. This includes scripts that mangle ruleset dumps by
> accident, etc. (Not sure if it is really a problem as we quote some
> strings already).
> 
> Using JSON, there are no such limits, BTW. I really wonder if there's
> really no fix for bison parser to make it "context aware".

Right.  We can probably make lots of keywords available for table/chain names
by only recognizing them while parsing rules, i.e. via 'start conditions'
in flex.  But I don't think there is anyone with the time to do the
needed scanner changes.