* Isaac Dunham <[email protected]> [05.04.2013 09:00]: > Because that note is not in the original man page; meaning that it was > "deprecated" by a third party (though there is a note under "BUGS" at the > end, saying "please use ip link" for showing full address information on > Infiniband--but then, is anyone planning to use infiniband with toybox? And > do we have to be bug-for-bug compatible?). > See: > http://net-tools.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=net-tools/net-tools;a=blob;f=man/en_US/ifconfig.8
thanks for this link. rob is right, this is only a limitation of the original ioctl thingy, which is not a problem when using netlink (with a fresh implementation). this BUG affects also tunnels... > Digging that up indicates that net-tools is very much alive, with at least 5 > regular contributors within the past year or two and several 6 weeks ago. "very much" 8-) bastian@box:~/net-tools$ git log --after="2012/06/31" --pretty=format:"Author: %an" | wc -l 26 bastian@box:~/net-tools$ git log --after="2012/06/31" --pretty=format:"Author: %an" | sort | uniq | wc -l 5 bastian@box:~/iproute2$ git log --after="2012/06/31" --pretty=format:"Author: %an" | wc -l 190 bastian@box:~/iproute2$ git log --after="2012/06/31" --pretty=format:"Author: %an" | sort | uniq | wc -l 49 but anyway, it says only where the devs are at the moment. (and like rob mentioned: 'cat' has not touched since a long time and is good 8-) bye, bastian _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
