Re: [Snort-devel] BNF Definitions

From: Chris Green <cmg(at)sourcefire.com>
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 09:29:04 EDT

"Roy S. Rapoport" <snort-devel@ols.inorganic.org> writes:

> Is there something like this documented? Or should I reverse-engineer

Good luck writing a formal BNF for the snort rules language. It's going to have a boatload of special cases based off each preprocessor keyword and

If you wish to try, I'll be happy to look at what you do.

things to think about

• custom rule types
• parser is distributed amongst all the files
• each rule_opt potentially has its own grammar -- Chris Green <cmg@sourcefire.com> This is my signature. There are many like it but this one is mine.

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