[libvirt] [PATCH V5 2/4] Create rules for each member of a list

[Eric Blake]

On 10/31/2011 07:01 AM, Stefan Berger wrote:
> This patch extends the NWFilter driver for Linux (ebiptables) to create
> rules for each member of a previously introduced list. If for example
> an attribute value (internally) looks like this:
>
> IP = [10.0.0.1, 10.0.0.2, 10.0.0.3]
>
> then 3 rules will be generated for a rule accessing the variable 'IP',
> one for each member of the list. The effect of this is that this now
> allows for filtering for multiple values in one field. This can then be
> used to support for filtering/allowing of multiple IP addresses per
> interface.
>
> An iterator is introduced that extracts each member of a list and
> puts it into a hash table which then is passed to the function creating
> a rule. For the above example the iterator would cause 3 loops.
>

ACK.

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