Messages in this thread | | | From | Paul Rusty Russell <> | Subject | 2.3.29 breaks ipfwadm/ipchains compatibility. | Date | Sun, 28 Nov 1999 15:45:29 +1100 |
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The removal of the `int dummy' to procfs's get_info function breaks ipfwadm and ipchains compatibility modules (maintained outside the official kernel), which use it to indicate `read-and-reset' when the file is open read-write.
Don't blame me; it wasn't my hack.
Linus, will you accept a patch to pass the `struct file*' to get_info? (which allows access to the file mode again), or revert the removal of this final get_info arg?
Rusty. PS. No I don't want to put the backwards compatibility modules in the mainstream kernel; to provide masquerading they use all the new connection tracking and NAT code, and I don't want all that in the official kernel (not for 2.4 at least). -- Hacking time.
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