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

[Sriram Narayanan]

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Mike La Spina <mike.laspina at laspina.ca> wrote:
> 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).
>

On some of my Belenix servers at work, I've aliased ifconfig to
ifconfig -a. On my laptop I've left this unaliased.

> 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.
>

Indeed. Though in this case I saw a nice discussion. I valued this
discussion since it reminded me that it's such small
fixes/conveniences that we need to pay attention to and discuss the
merits/demerits of.

> 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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