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From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r256768 - head/sbin/ifconfig
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Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>=20
> ... erm, this could break many existing scripts that stupidly(!) just
> try adding an interface to a group to see if it's already there.

Why would you do that instead of "ifconfig -g group | grep -w iface"?
And is it really more important than being able to restart an interface?

> Is the ifconfig error behavour in this instance documented anywhere?

No.

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