From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it>
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nfnetlink: This library is not meant as a public API for application developers.
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 14:55:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200213135504.srhuuph4sd7pd7ne@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bcff17cd-1457-7454-e00f-22d798afd7e5@tana.it>
Hi,
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:27:41PM +0100, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
> Has that disclaimer always been in libnfnetlink home page[*]?
>
> It is the first time I see it.
>
> I have a userspace filter[†] working with it, and it currently works well.
>
> If I remove -lnfnetlink from the link command, I get just one undefined
> reference to symbol 'nfnl_rcvbufsiz'. It is used only if there is a command
> line option to set the buffer size to a given size, to avoid enobufs. For the
> rest, the daemon uses libnetfilter_queue.
>
> Should I rewrite that? How?
Probably, we should rewrite that sentence to: "For new software,
please consider using libmnl instead." which is actually the
intention.
libnetfilter_queue also provides an API that combines well with
libmnl.
There is no plans to remove libnfnetlink anytime soon, it's still
being used by netfilter userspace software.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-13 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-13 11:27 nfnetlink: This library is not meant as a public API for application developers Alessandro Vesely
2020-02-13 13:55 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2020-04-12 8:21 ` Duncan Roe
2020-04-13 18:46 ` Alessandro Vesely
2020-04-22 1:37 ` Duncan Roe
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