From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Westphal Subject: Re: Unable to create a chain called "trace" Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 13:29:23 +0100 Message-ID: <20210212122923.GF2766@breakpoint.cc> References: <20210208154915.GF16570@breakpoint.cc> <20210208164750.GM3158@orbyte.nwl.cc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20210208164750.GM3158@orbyte.nwl.cc> List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Phil Sutter , Florian Westphal , Martin Gignac , netfilter@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel Phil Sutter 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.