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Subject: Re: bin/88119: [patch] partial matching for ifconfig
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The following reply was made to PR bin/88119; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: bw@desync.com
To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/88119: [patch] partial matching for ifconfig
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:35:30 -0500

 On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 09:18:22AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote:
 > On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 07:26:58PM -0400, bw@desync.com wrote:
 > > True, fixed.
 > 
 > I dislike this 'fix'.  If the partial matching is going to be generally
 > useful, ifconfig needs to have a valid return status when it's run.
 
 I'll just point out that OpenBSD's ifconfig returns true when displaying
 interfaces by group.
 
 > I'm unwilling to commit this feature without it being activated by a flag.
 
 You've missed the point of the patch, anyway.  I withdraw my PR.
 
 > -- Brooks
 
 bw.