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

Gary Mills mills at cc.umanitoba.ca
Mon May 30 05:03:12 PDT 2011


On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 08:12:47AM +0400, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> 
> 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?)

Is there a standard we can follow?  There seem to be two conventions
for the usage display.  One is that the command with no options
produces it.  The other is to require an option like `-?' or `-h'.

-- 
-Gary Mills-        -Unix Group-        -Computer and Network Services-



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