Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 12:56:15 GMT From: Mark Valentine <mark@linus.demon.co.uk> To: Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.dialix.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netstat has been broken for a long time.. Message-ID: <199511151256.MAA01654@linus.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Peter Wemm's message of Nov 15, 1:57pm
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> From: Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.dialix.com>
> Date: Wed 15 Nov, 1995
> Subject: netstat has been broken for a long time..
> To my (not so) great suprise, I discovered netstat was accidently
> broken... it's nlist()ing the kernel looking for "_unixsw" which was
> replaced with "_localsw" and netstat not updated.
You mean I've been typing "netstat -f inet" unnecessarily all this time? :-(
> ....However.... Perhaps it would be an acceptable compromise to fix
> inetd so that it does not display AF_UNIX sockets unless specifically
> requested with "netstat -f unix". Best of both worlds?
Why pick on "unix"? No -f options means "all protocols". If you did
restrict the default display to an arbitrary subset, you'd have to invent
a way of specifying "all protocols" again without enumerating them.
Annoying though it may be, I think the current behaviour (when fixed) is
most flexible; invent an alias for ``netstat -f inet'' if you really it:
inetstat() { netstat -f inet ${1+"$@"}; }
Mark.
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