Re: New "ip wait" subcommand for iproute2

2015-12-30 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 18:47:51 -0500 Nathaniel W Filardo wrote: > Hallo netdev@, > > I had occasion to want to programmatically wait for an interface to become > available from within a shell script, but found there to be no off-the-shelf > tool for such a thing. Could this

New "ip wait" subcommand for iproute2

2015-12-28 Thread Nathaniel W Filardo
Hallo netdev@, I had occasion to want to programmatically wait for an interface to become available from within a shell script, but found there to be no off-the-shelf tool for such a thing. Could this patch be considered for inclusion as part of iproute2? It adds an "ip wait link" subcommand