option: remove last traces of intrapositional negation

Intrapositional negation was deprecated in 1.4.3.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 29 deletions

diff --git a/iptables/xtables.c b/iptables/xtables.c
index 0f025920..b05df97b 100644
--- a/iptables/xtables.c
+++ b/iptables/xtables.c
@@ -1765,35 +1765,6 @@ void xtables_save_string(const char *value)
 	}
 }
 
-/**
- * Check for option-intrapositional negation.
- * Do not use in new code.
- */
-int xtables_check_inverse(const char option[], int *invert,
-			  int *my_optind, int argc, char **argv)
-{
-	if (option == NULL || strcmp(option, "!") != 0)
-		return false;
-
-	fprintf(stderr, "Using intrapositioned negation "
-	        "(`--option ! this`) is deprecated in favor of "
-	        "extrapositioned (`! --option this`).\n");
-
-	if (*invert)
-		xt_params->exit_err(PARAMETER_PROBLEM,
-			   "Multiple `!' flags not allowed");
-	*invert = true;
-	if (my_optind != NULL) {
-		optarg = argv[*my_optind];
-		++*my_optind;
-		if (argc && *my_optind > argc)
-			xt_params->exit_err(PARAMETER_PROBLEM,
-				   "no argument following `!'");
-	}
-
-	return true;
-}
-
 const struct xtables_pprot xtables_chain_protos[] = {
 	{"tcp",       IPPROTO_TCP},
 	{"sctp",      IPPROTO_SCTP},