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

Garrett D'Amore garrett at damore.org
Sun May 29 21:12:47 PDT 2011


My reply wasn't a nak, just a valid question.  I actually don't have a strong opinion on this one way or the other.  (I mistype without the -a often enough myself that I suppose I would find this useful... but I don't go into ifconfig for usage.  Perhaps others do?)

  -- Garrett D'Amore

On May 30, 2011, at 2:06 AM, Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 01:47, Bayard Bell
> <buffer.g.overflow at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Seems like a convenience that's better done in a shell function, possibly in the system default profile.
> 
> If we can agree that -a should be default, why workaround it instead
> of just changing ifconfig for everyone? If not, whatever.
> 
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