On Apr 8, 2011, at 6:08 AM, Sergey Vinogradov wrote: > Hi, hackers. > I have a question: why ipv4 netmask is displayed by ifconfig in hex format? > Isn't dot-decimal notation more human-readable? Will the attached patch break > something in the very bad way?
This is a gratuitous change that would break scripts. Hex has been used for a very long time, and most people know how to cope. If we really wanted to make it human readable, we'd output 10.2.3.4/24 Warner _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
