On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 08:41:27PM +0000, Alessandro Selli wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 01:55:41PM -0400, Bryan J Smith wrote:
>> >> Are we using ifconfig and netstat?
>> >> Or are we generation ip and ss now?
>> >>
>> >> /me runs ;)
>> >
>> > I was thinking the same thing. Who uses ifconfig anymore? or route
>> > for that matter.
Keep in mind that some of the LPI affiliates also market these as
"Unix" certifications. That said, we are transitioning over to the
systemd/ip/<insert 7 year old new stuff side in LPIC-1. I think it'll
be a long time before the dinosaurs bones are completely buried,
though.
>> A *large* number of people, including some package maintainers who
>> still write scripts with ifconfig, route, arp, back-ticks for command
>> substitution, iwconfig, for I in (seq $A $B) constructs and lots more
>> of ancient and deprecated technology.
> Sure. But the dreadful inefficiencies of ifconfig (which uses /proc)
> compared to ip (which uses netlink) is just painful.
Inefficiencies? How often do you run these commands? :)
> Maybe only people doing embedded work actually care about efficiencies
> anymore.
Nah, I think that they just inverted Knuth's opinion on the 97% and 3%
in efficiency hunting and worry about it 97% of the time. ;)
http://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/premature-optimization-is-the-root-of-all-evil/
Regards,
--matt
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G. Matthew Rice <mr...@lpi.org> gpg id: EF9AAD20
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