Re: Unable to create a chain called "trace"

[Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>]

Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc> wrote:
> > grammar bug.
> > 
> > Pablo, Phil, others, can you remind me why we never did:
> 
> Because this would be followed up by:
> 
> | Subject: Unable to create a table called "trace"
> 
> Jokes aside:
> 
> I think Pablo didn't like the obvious consequence of having to quote
> *all* string types which are user-defined in output. He played with
> keeping the quotes as part of the name, so they are sent to kernel and
> in listing they would automatically appear quoted. I don't quite
> remember why this was problematic, though.
>
> 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).

Ok, but what if we just allow use of quotes in input?
That would at least allow to use nft to delete/add to chains created
by other tools.