* Florian Obser <flor...@openbsd.org> [2015-03-26 18:36]: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 05:46:12PM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote: > > * Mike Belopuhov <m...@belopuhov.com> [2015-03-26 14:36]: > > > however I agree that if we do this for ipv6 we should do it for ipv4 as > > > well > > > but then do we care about tons of stuff out there parsing ifconfig output? > > that's the prime question. I would love to move to CIDR notation - are > > we breaking people's scripts with that? The inet side has been the same > > for, what, decades? > Of course this breaks stuff :)
uh, now that you mention it, I didn't chose a very obvious way to ask the question - of course the ifconfig output change breaks scripts parsing ifconfig output, the real question being: how common are scripts doing that? -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services GmbH, http://bsws.de, Full-Service ISP Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS. Virtual & Dedicated Servers, Root to Fully Managed Henning Brauer Consulting, http://henningbrauer.com/
