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* [PATCH iptables]: Support the iptables lock in ip[6]tables-restore
@ 2017-03-15 13:45 Lorenzo Colitti
  2017-03-15 13:45 ` [PATCH iptables 1/2] iptables: remove duplicated argument parsing code Lorenzo Colitti
  2017-03-15 13:45 ` [PATCH iptables 2/2] iptables-restore: support acquiring the lock Lorenzo Colitti
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Lorenzo Colitti @ 2017-03-15 13:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netfilter-devel; +Cc: pablo, jscherpelz, subashab, zlpnobody

This series adds support for -w and -W to ip[6]tables-restore,
which currently do not perform any locking.

The lock is not acquired on startup. Instead, it is acquired when
a new table handle is created (on encountering '*') and released
when the table is committed (COMMIT). This makes it possible to
keep long-running iptables-restore processes in the background
(for example, reading commands from a pipe opened by a system
management daemon) and simultaneously run iptables commands.
An example usage is Android's IptablesRestoreController.cpp.

The first patch factors out to common functions the code that
parses -w and -W, in order not to have to add more copies of it.
The second patch actually adds support to iptables-restore.

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2017-03-15 23:49   ` Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan
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