Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 17:32:09 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@mahoroba.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: %a and %A formats Message-ID: <99149.976465929@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "10 Dec 2000 17:27:18 %2B0100." <xzpy9xogs2h.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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In message <xzpy9xogs2h.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes:
>Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@mahoroba.org> writes:
>> I don't like this. I've tired enough to address af dependent
>> programming. What character will you introduce for IPv7 or IPv8...?
>> Furthermore, IPv6 address has scope that IPv4 doesn't have. %a should
>> takes struct sockaddr * for the argument instead of struct in_addr *,
>> and should be address independent.
>
>Many (if not most) of the places in the kernel that need this don't
>have a struct sockaddr available.
What we *really* need is a %{type} construct with dynmically
loadable renderes for different types.
Then you could printf("Deny %{proto} from ${ip} to ${ip}", ...)
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