On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 01:25:22PM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote:
> On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 01:27:50PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:
> > [...]
> > technically, hostname.if doesn't support ip/len notation. It is a
> > notation that the hostname parser doesn't grok and just passes on to
> > ifconfig. That is the modus operandi for almost everything actually
> > - except the classic "inet [addr] [mask] [bcast]" notation. This
> > "dual" approach, parsing by netstart vs just passing on to ifconfig,
> > is the source of this slightly confusing behaviour.
> >
>
> yep. and someone went to the trouble of trying to make that all nice
> and clear, at the top of hostname.if(5). so i don;t see that anything
> needs to be done, doc-fix-wise.
> [...]
Fair enough, I retract my patch then :)
--
Gregor
