From owner-cvs-all Sat Jun 29 11:23: 8 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40FF237B400; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 11:23:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64D6043E06; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 11:23:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with SMTP id g5TIMvbM039117; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 14:22:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 14:22:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: "David O'Brien" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ipfw Makefile ipfw2.c src/sys/netinet ip_dummynet.c ip_fw.h ip_fw2.c src/sys/conf files src/lib/libalias alias_db.c In-Reply-To: <20020629111203.B73787@iguana.icir.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > For the kernel part i prefer to keep the new name (it is an entirely > different beast) and nuke the old file. > > For the userland part, but i am considering moving most of the > functionality into a library or something like that, which will accept a > string and parse&translate it into an appropriate data structure to be > passed to the setsockopt(), so that other programs (such as libalias) do > not have to redo the same. > > This means a split of the code in at least 2 files, so let me wait a bit > to decide on the naming issues. Having the ipfw management code in a library would be great -- make it much easier to write integrated firewall management tools. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message