On Tue, 8 Sep 2015, Martín Ferrari wrote: > Is this breaking a package or just your scripts?
This is breaking at least two scripts of mine, which is where and why I noticed this immediately after the dist-upgrade today, but there’ll be others lurking. Probably none of them packaged, though. > In any case, I think you should be doing this differently. Either using > iproute2 that has a parseable format (although that has changed too), or This won’t work, I did quite the WTF today at iproute2 now, as it appends “@NONE” to the interface names. I need reliable, consistent, parsable output across all Debian versions (and some derivates). > direcly parsing files in /proc/net Excuse me, but WTF? The standard Unix interface for things is stdout of other commands, as in, filters and pipes. ifconfig is *the* standard utility to get information about interfaces. bye, //mirabilos -- tarent solutions GmbH Rochusstraße 2-4, D-53123 Bonn • http://www.tarent.de/ Tel: +49 228 54881-393 • Fax: +49 228 54881-235 HRB 5168 (AG Bonn) • USt-ID (VAT): DE122264941 Geschäftsführer: Dr. Stefan Barth, Kai Ebenrett, Boris Esser, Alexander Steeg

