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

[Mike La Spina]

While there may be many instances where issuing an admin tool execution without parms generates a usage reply it should not cause an exclusion of more desired behavior requested from the actual primary users (Many admins in this case).

So my point is that we should not discourage our community from suggesting better usability with the core tools when it's simply and easy to accommodate.

Regards,

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: Joerg Schilling [mailto:Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de] 
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 9:02 AM
To: garrett at damore.org; andre at purplecow.org
Cc: developer at lists.illumos.org
Subject: Re: [illumos-Developer] making -a default for ifconfig?

"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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