Add new exit value to indicate concurrency issues (Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>)
diff --git a/include/iptables_common.h b/include/iptables_common.h
index 28bda9f..64723c3 100644
--- a/include/iptables_common.h
+++ b/include/iptables_common.h
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@
enum exittype {
OTHER_PROBLEM = 1,
PARAMETER_PROBLEM,
- VERSION_PROBLEM
+ VERSION_PROBLEM,
+ RESOURCE_PROBLEM
};
/* this is a special 64bit data type that is 8-byte aligned */
diff --git a/iptables-standalone.c b/iptables-standalone.c
index 257b677..e5c7841 100644
--- a/iptables-standalone.c
+++ b/iptables-standalone.c
@@ -64,9 +64,13 @@
if (ret)
ret = iptc_commit(&handle);
- if (!ret)
+ if (!ret) {
fprintf(stderr, "iptables: %s\n",
iptc_strerror(errno));
+ if (errno == EAGAIN) {
+ exit(RESOURCE_PROBLEM);
+ }
+ }
exit(!ret);
}