Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 22:57:26 +0400 From: Sergey Vinogradov <boogie@lazybytes.org> To: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ifconfig output: ipv4 netmask format Message-ID: <4D9F5A96.6040501@lazybytes.org> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimtKiTTc49Aee6a-nfzKyHUoJAGNQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <4D9EFAC6.4020906@lazybytes.org> <7EA5889E-77EF-4BAE-9655-C33692A75602@bsdimp.com> <4D9F2C88.4010205@lazybytes.org> <BANLkTimtKiTTc49Aee6a-nfzKyHUoJAGNQ@mail.gmail.com>
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[snip] >> So, maybe, while following the POLA, we should add an option, as Daniel >> mentioned above? To output the CIDR? > > Eh... I don't know if doing this would be wise because it might break > some 3rd party mechanisms for parsing the output (as broken as you > might think it is), in particular (for example) because people can > alias the ifconfig command to something else. If we'll introduce such ifconfig option (i.e. ifconfig -c) nothing is going to break: ifconfig's default behavior won't change, and people, who will alias `ifconfig' to `ifconfig -c' are their own enemies. User should think about consequences of such actions. -- wbr, Boo
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