[illumos-Developer] making -a default for ifconfig?

[Bill Sommerfeld]

On 05/29/11 13:11, Alexey Zaytsev wrote:
> Just a random proposal.
> How about we make ifconfig display the plumbed interfaces by default,
> instead of just showing the usage?
sounds good to me.

> And we don't expect any scripts to break, right?

Any script that breaks because it's expecting a usage message is 
erroneous -- usage messages are provoked by incorrect usage; it's always 
a backwards-compatible change to give new meaning to what was previously 
a syntax error.

						- Bill