On 08.04.2011 19:23, Warner Losh wrote:
On Apr 8, 2011, at 6:08 AM, Sergey Vinogradov wrote:
Hi, hackers.
I have a question: why ipv4 netmask is displayed by ifconfig in hex format?
Isn't dot-decimal notation more human-readable? Will the attached patch break
something in the very bad way?
This is a gratuitous change that would break scripts. Hex has been used for a
very long time, and most people know how to cope.
If we really wanted to make it human readable, we'd output 10.2.3.4/24
Warner
So, maybe, while following the POLA, we should add an option, as Daniel
mentioned above? To output the CIDR?
--
wbr,
Boo
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