Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 00:52:01 +0400 From: Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org> To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Merge ping+ping6 and traceroue+traceroute6 to single utilities? Message-ID: <1043056268.20140112005201@serebryakov.spb.ru> In-Reply-To: <1E09095E-82BB-448E-8EE5-52830F664C3D@lists.zabbadoz.net> References: <1063008459.20140111160525@serebryakov.spb.ru> <52D14140.3090003@gibfest.dk> <a46d4e716d15f48b1d4bd32c22dce45c@mailbox.ijs.si> <1218795565.20140111222236@serebryakov.spb.ru> <1E09095E-82BB-448E-8EE5-52830F664C3D@lists.zabbadoz.net>
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Hello, Bjoern. You wrote 11 =D1=8F=D0=BD=D0=B2=D0=B0=D1=80=D1=8F 2014 =D0=B3., 23:39:48: >> >> MM> The ping6 and traceroute6 could be made just links to a common utili= ty >> MM> and turn on the -6 option implicitly. For a transition period I could >> MM> live with the -4 being a default, if that would be a consensus. >> Exactly my point of view. BAZ> Question =E2=80=94 will you preserve (conflicting) command line option= s and if It is good question, indeed. BAZ> it=E2=80=99s one utility and I use a hostname how will it know how to = interpret them? hostname gives ambiguity only if here are both A and AAAA records AND we have both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses configured. In such case we should choose sane default, which could depends on argv[0] :) Also, options parsing could depends on argv[0] too, for backward compatibility. --=20 // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>
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