Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 22:06:37 -0800 (PST) From: Dmitry Kohmanyuk <dk@dog.farm.org> To: archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Teeny-weeny /usr/src/sbin/ipfw/ipfw.c patch Message-ID: <199712050606.WAA23987@dog.farm.org>
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In article <199712050142.RAA11543@bubba.whistle.com> you wrote:
> Jos Backus writes:
> > *** ipfw.c.dist Fri Dec 5 01:29:49 1997
> > --- ipfw.c Fri Dec 5 01:30:20 1997
> > ***************
> > *** 1197,1202 ****
> > --- 1197,1203 ----
> > while (fgets(buf, BUFSIZ, f)) {
> >
> > lineno++;
> > + if (buf[0]=='#'||buf[0]=='\n') continue;
> > sprintf(linename, "Line %d", lineno);
> > args[0] = linename;
> >
> > This allows comments/empty lines in a firewall rule file (when using the
> > ``ipfw rulefile'' syntax), which seems pretty handy (at least to me --
> > documenting rules and all that).
> Good idea! But may I suggest this tweak? So a blank line with extra
> white space is OK too...
> *** ipfw.c.orig Fri Dec 5 01:39:35 1997
> --- ipfw.c Fri Dec 5 01:40:33 1997
> ***************
> *** 1200,1208 ****
> --- 1200,1212 ----
> sprintf(linename, "Line %d", lineno);
> args[0] = linename;
>
> + if (*buf == '#')
> + continue;
should probably become
char *p;
if ((p = strchr(buf, '#') != NULL)
*p = 0;
to handle lines like
#indented comment
or
ipfw deny .... ... #end-of-line comment
> for (i = 1, a = strtok(buf, WHITESP);
> a && i < MAX_ARGS; a = strtok(NULL, WHITESP), i++)
> args[i] = a;
> + if (i == 1)
> + continue;
> if (i == MAX_ARGS)
> errx(1, "%s: too many arguments", linename);
> args[i] = NULL;
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