From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 13 15: 4:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from aurora.sol.net (aurora.sol.net [206.55.65.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CA2C37B84D for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 15:04:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgreco@aurora.sol.net) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by aurora.sol.net (8.9.2/8.9.2/SNNS-1.02) id RAA37432; Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:21:36 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <200007132221.RAA37432@aurora.sol.net> Subject: Re: PR 10548: more userful ifconfig behaviour without args To: nbm@mithrandr.moria.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:21:35 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > There are plenty of PRs languishing without comment in the PR database, > and this is one that requires a "implement and close it" or "here's a > good reason not to do this, and close it" response. Well, I'm not real thrilled with this particular patch. It adds no functionality to ifconfig, yet it eats up the magical "argc == 1" catchall. It seems to be a keystroke-saver, in which case I propose we change the name of "ifconfig" to simply "i" :-) -- ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message