On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 11:23:40PM +0200, Eric Leblond wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2017-09-04 at 22:53 +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 10:43:48PM +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 09:55:58AM +0200, Eric Leblond wrote: > > > > This patch introduces the nft_print function that has to be used > > > > instead of printf to output information that were previously send > > > > to stdout. This function accumulate the output in a buffer that > > > > can > > > > be fetched by the user with the nft_ctx_get_output() function. > > > > > > > > This modification will allow the libnftables library to provide > > > > an > > > > easy way to the users to get the output data and display them > > > > like > > > > they want. > > > > > > tests/shell/./run-tests > > > > > > is reporting problems with this :-( > > > > Eric, I can also see there are missing printf() to nft_print() > > conversion on the monitor side. > > > > I would expect the simple API works like this: if you pass the > > "monitor" command, it justs prints events to whatever destination you > > have specified. > > > > This is the most simple integration that makes sense to me. > > > > Therefore, I think it would be good to convert those too to use > > nft_print(). > > Yes indeed, that make sense. For each message, the user get the human > formatted version of the event.
Yes. Once we have json support for this - in the high level representation - we could add a function to specify the print mode. But that is something we can of course later on, just thinking aloud. > Do you want me to cook that based on the previously attached patch ? Please do. Thanks! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
