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

[Joerg Schilling]

"Garrett D'Amore" <garrett at damore.org> wrote:

> 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. :-)

And all UNIX implementations I checked give the usage for an "ifconfig" call.

Jörg

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