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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:53:09 -0500
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From: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: ng_ether and vlan interfaces
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Hi,

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> wrot=
e:
> changing it to '_' might be accceptable, =A0'.' is much like '/' in th
> filesystem.
> it is a separator. You can't have it in the name.
> a patch that converted . to _ would be a nice idea.
> please ensure that the man page is updated as well.
>
Doesn't FreeBSD care about kernel/userland backward interface
compatibility at all ? ie. will all my scripts assuming '.' as a
separator need to also check the FreeBSD version to use whatever path
separator ? How would you do that with bare ngctl script, which cannot
be really that evolved ? How do you deal with node in the wild already
using '_' in their name ?

Thanks,
 - Arnaud