/proc/net/ip_conntrack problems

[Taral]

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On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 10:02:03AM +0100, Harald Welte wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 04:32:12PM -0600, Taral wrote:
> > Okay, maybe this is a better forum for this. I'm losing lines from
> > /proc/net/ip_conntrack if I don't use a large enough buffer. Why is
> > this? The code is broken, but it's broken too subtly for me to work out.
>=20
> I'm not too familiar with the file I/O code in the kernel, but maybe if y=
ou
> don't read out the whole table in one operation, the contents of the table
> changes before your read out the next part.
>=20
> > Taral <taral@taral.net>

No, I verified that one too. We definitely seem to be losing lines
somehow. I posted to the netfilter list, but still no reply there..

I think this is a bug in list_conntracks.

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