netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/1] netfilter: xt_condition: add condition target

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Date:	Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:10:02 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
To:	Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@...ia.com>
cc:	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kaber@...sh.net, sameo@...ux.intel.com, janne.ylalehto@...ia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] netfilter: xt_condition: add condition target


On Thursday 2010-08-12 08:37, Luciano Coelho wrote:
>
>One thing that came to my mind was whether it would make sense to
>rename this match/target combo to "variable" instead of "condition".
>To me it makes more sense to call it variable than condition, since
>I have changed the value from boolean to u32. On the other hand, it
>could become very confusing because it used to be called condition
>in its xtables-addons days...

To improve matters, POSIX has something called "condition variables".
So oh well let's just leave it as-is :)
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