Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 22:21:05 -0800 (PST) From: Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net> To: Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com> Cc: Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ipfw ipfw.8 ipfw.c ipfw2.c Message-ID: <20030116221911.A36702-100000@gateway.posi.net> In-Reply-To: <20030113140921.GH35226@survey.codeburst.net>
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On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Paul Richards wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 12:08:21PM -0800, Kelly Yancey wrote:
> > kbyanc 2002/12/23 12:08:21 PST
> >
> > Modified files:
> > sbin/ipfw ipfw.8 ipfw.c ipfw2.c
> > Log:
> > Make preprocessor support more generic by passing all command-line options
> > after -p except for the last (the ruleset file to process) to the
> > preprocessor for interpretation. This allows command-line options besides
> > -U and -D to be passed to cpp(1) and m4(1) as well as making it easier to
> > use other preprocessors.
>
> I'm not sure this is a good idea.
>
> If you want to ensure that options are passed to the preprocessor then
> they can be put in quotes rather than changing normal command line
> semantics to make a certain option "magic" in that it swallows all
> remaining options except the last one. This will confuse anyone who
> doesn't read the documentation carefully and realises -p does this.
>
> Paul.
>
That may be, but it is certainly better than the previous behavior of
the -D and -U options be extra-special. Changing it any more than I
did would have broken backward compatibility for anyone using -D or -U
as was documented in ipfw(8).
Kelly
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