On 9/29/05, Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Olaf van der Spek writes ("Re: netstat IPv6 address truncation patch"):
> > Did you see my related patch at
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=222324
> >
> > It should also solve the truncation issue but I think it's more general.
>
> The thing you sent to the Debian BTS is an ed-format diff ! Looking
There are two patches. The second version is in another format.
> at it it seems to just add a new command-line flag for not truncating
> the address. That's wrong, IMO.
--wide is enabled by default on interactive terminals
Bernd prefered that way to avoid breaking any scripts.
> I think my patch (with the obvious fix to the tcp/udp string) is far
> better. It never truncates an IPv6 address when -n is requested,
> which I think is necessary to preserve the behaviour that people
> (including scripts) rely on.
I haven't looked at it in detail but I guess it just uses wider fields
in one row if necessary?
