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Message-ID: <501215B2.9010802@parallels.com> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:14:42 +0400 From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com> To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com> CC: Dan Smith <danms@...ibm.com>, Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] iproute: Add route showdump command On 07/26/2012 08:03 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:53:39 +0400 > Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com> wrote: > >> Some time ago the save+restore commands were added to ip route (git >> id f4ff11e3, Add ip route save/restore). These two save the raw rtnl >> stream into a file and restore one (reading it from stdin). >> >> The problem is that there's no way to get the contents of the dump >> file in a human readable form. How about adding a command that reads >> the rtnl stream from stdin and prints the data in a way the usual >> "ip route list" does? >> >> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com> > > Being able to decode a dump is great idea. > Are the user's smart enough not to try it out at the command prompt > and get totally lost? Maybe another isatty() check is needed. > > Another solution would be to put a small header on the save file with > a magic number that could be checked. This would mean changing save/restore/showdump > and ideally updating the magic file in distributions. > . Hm... The idea with magic looks reasonable. I will look at what can be done here, thanks! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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