Hi,

anonym wrote (21 Feb 2014 05:10:08 GMT) :
> See commit 6881869 for migration from ifconfig to ip. However, ip isn't
> particularly well-suited for grep:ing the output of (not that ifconfig
> is any better) so I opted to use the sysfs interface instead when
> possible for less regex spaghetti and greater clarity. For that, see
> commit 940690c.

I like it.

>> I'm afraid this won't work very well for drivers that macchanger can't
>> retrieve the permanent MAC address from, e.g.:

> To be continued after the issue pointed out in the post "Serious issue:
> fail-safe and hotplugging" (since it seems like the solution to it
> determines how to deal with this).

This is fixed by the new fail-safe mechanism, right?

>>> +    # We can't use Desktop::Notify since this script is supposed to be run
>>> +    # as root (for access to syslog), started in an env without DESKTOP 
>>> etc,
>>> +    # which also causes issues with opening links in the text body.
>> 
>> ... then we should *not* use links that don't work in the text body.

> Either you misunderstood that comment, or I misunderstand you. By using
> the `tails-notify-user` wrapper, like the script currently does, links
> work just fine. The comment is about Desktop::Notify not being an
> alternative to `tails-notify-user` if we want links to work, which I
> think is a good thing to do when we can, like in this case.

> Do you agree? If so, feel free to clarify the code comment if you feel
> it is unclear.

We agree. Clarified comment in 84e09ae.

Cheers!
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