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Date:      Mon, 15 Aug 2016 01:32:49 +0300
From:      Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Named states in ipfw (and old rulesets)
Message-ID:  <516433114.20160815013243@serebryakov.spb.ru>
In-Reply-To: <2126139e-9c11-a55c-7573-8b4d3869bf87@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <1812167147.20160814202008@serebryakov.spb.ru>  <1211733990.20160814202656@serebryakov.spb.ru> <2126139e-9c11-a55c-7573-8b4d3869bf87@FreeBSD.org>

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Hello Andrey,

Sunday, August 14, 2016, 9:01:15 PM, you wrote:


 I have very formal objection against "any unknown token after *-state is
state name": it hides mistakes and typos very well. I've been bitten by this
right now. New patch uses "defer-action", but old "record-state skip-action"
passes without error, because "skip-action" is valid state name!

 Please, change this to some prefix to state name (:name, @name or something
like this) or to "state-action(name)" format. It will be much better: less
error-prone and will work without ugly warnings on old rulesets.


-- 
Best regards,
 Lev                            mailto:lev@FreeBSD.org
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