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Re: why not a libpf

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Old 02-18-2008, 08:54 AM
Matthew R. Dempsky
 
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Default Re: why not a libpf

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 03:00:19PM +0200, Francois Visconte wrote:
> For exemple, libevent code is not included in a 'evenctl' binary.


That seems like a silly example---a program wanting to use libevent
could not easily be restructured to use a hypothetical `eventctl'
program, whereas a program that wants to manipulate the pf ruleset
could easily fork/exec `pfctl' with the appropriate arguments and pipe
the changes to it.

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