netfilter buglog - Dec 2008 - [Bug 536] C++ compilation failure when using the iptables header files

http://bugzilla.netfilter.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536


pavlin at icsi.berkeley.edu changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Severity|trivial                     |blocker
           Priority|P2                          |P1




------- Comment #1 from pavlin at icsi.berkeley.edu  2008-12-19 20:40 -------
Increased the severity and the priority, because a compilation problem is a
blocker.


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------- Comment #2 from laforge at netfilter.org  2008-12-21 14:45 -------
since when do kernel header files support inclusion from C++ code?  Is there
such a rule/policy? I've never heard about it.  How do other parts of the
kernel do?


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------- Comment #3 from pavlin at icsi.berkeley.edu  2008-12-22 07:33 -------
The <linux/netfilter_ipv4/ip_tables.h> and
<linux/netfilter_ipv6/ip6_tables.h>
header files are used by iptables(8), so they are not kernel-only header files.

In XORP (http://www.xorp.org/) we include those header files by userland
programs,
and XORP is in C++.
Without the trivial fix specified in the original bug report message, those
header
files cannot be included by C++ userland programs like XORP.


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