Peter Memishian wrote:
>  > My one sort of pseudo-general question here is, what are the consumers 
>  > for this dladm output? 
> 
> Numerous test suites need parseable dladm output.  Also, VirtualBox,
> virt-manager, and some GNOME utilities consume dladm output, among others.
> 

I will second the idea that this sort of output is *very* helpful for 
test development.  Ksh seems to be the environment of choice for test 
development, especially for things like setup/cleanup scripts.

-John

> This case has suffered enough; I'm praying we don't now rathole into a
> long thread on the need for a parseable output mode.
> 


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