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

[Garrett D'Amore]

Not just a habit, but this is coded into scripts.  So -s by default would break interface compatibility.

The -a for ifconfig is a different matter, since I doubt people have written scripts to parse the output from the usage message. :-)

  -- Garrett D'Amore

On May 30, 2011, at 3:04 AM, Andre van Eyssen <andre at purplecow.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 29 May 2011, Alasdair Lumsden wrote:
> 
>> I'd say the same of "ping -s" being the default. I (and no doubt many others) often use ping as a quick way to simultaneously check if a host is up, and what its IP address is. Knowing whether its alive or not is not terribly useful, -s gives you that + more info.
> 
> -1 to the ping idea - Solaris ping has had the same behaviour forever and I'm sure I'm not the only one with a "ping foo && blah" habit.
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