On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 12:25:16PM +0000, Oliver Ford wrote:
> Adds an option to output the results of iptables-save,
> ip6tables-save, and xtables-save save to a file.
> Updates the man page with this new option.
> 
> Uses the dup2 call to replace stdout with the specified file.
> Error output is unchanged.
> 
> This is a feature requested by a Gentoo developer in
> Bugzilla #905.

Applied, thanks.

One minor glitch here.

> @@ -159,6 +162,21 @@ int ip6tables_save_main(int argc, char *argv[])
>               case 'M':
>                       xtables_modprobe_program = optarg;
>                       break;
> +             case 'f':
> +                     file = fopen(optarg, "w");
> +                     if (file == NULL) {
> +                             fprintf(stderr, "Failed to open file, error: 
> %s\n",
> +                                     strerror(errno));
> +                             exit(1);
> +                     }
> +                     int ret = dup2(fileno(file), STDOUT_FILENO);

We prefer not to have variable declarations in the body. So I slightly
mangled your patch. See patch in the git repo for final version.

Thanks.
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