Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 00:10:19 GMT From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/88119: [patch] partial matching for ifconfig Message-ID: <200511010010.jA10AJLZ066708@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/88119; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: bw@desync.com Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/88119: [patch] partial matching for ifconfig Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:04:42 -0800 On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 05:35:30PM -0500, bw@desync.com wrote: > 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. The OpenBSD group stuff is based on a concept that is invalid today. The <drivername><unitnumber> model has a long history, but it poorly suited to reality, hense interface renaming. Once names are arbitrary, treating the driver name as a group no longer makes sense (not that it ever made much sense given that we name interfaces by driver implementation and have dozens of implementations.) I thank your for your submission and for discussing this, I just can't convince myself that the POLA volations this creates are worth the convenience. Ifconfig has too many users and is used in too many scripts to change it lightly. -- Brooks
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