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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] iptables-restore: new option to change the commit timing
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Propose calling it -a --atomic instead of -d --delay and maybe
--sequence --sequential or --onebyone for the opposite.
Either way doing all the parsing, then attempting to apply, and if it
fails attempting to undo it is probably the right default behaviour.