Erik Nordmark wrote: > sowmini.varadhan at sun.com wrote: > > >> As you point out, the converse situation holds for ifconfig- >> all ifconfig operations today are non-persistent, so the library >> really needs to be able to do both versions (in order to >> support both ipadm and ifconfig needs), though ifconfig is >> not going to start support the "persistent/non-persistent" flag. >> > > If we think we can finish this (libipadm with persistence and being used > by ifconfig) by the next minor release then we can at least consider > making persistent the only way - even when ifconfig is used as the CLI. >
So, changing ifconfig's behaviour... ...makes us different to every other Unix. ...goes against the trend of "Linux familarity" that we're striving for elsewhere in Open/Solaris. Persistance through a new CLI, ipadm, is interesting and worthwhile but what do we gain through changing the behaviour of ifconfig like this? Is there some new goal or philosophy around Open/Solaris development to which this kind of change fits in with? Darren
