Good point, I will add -p -o to rewrite the fix...

Thanks,
Henry

Laszlo (Laca) Peter ??:
> Replying to myself.  From man dladm:
> 
>          -p, --parseable
> 
>              Display using a stable machine-parseable format.
> 
> Looks like you even considered using it, but it's commented out
> in the patch.
> 
> You can also specify the fields you would like dladm to return:
> 
> $ pfexec dladm show-link -p -o LINK
> LINK="e1000g0"
> LINK="iwk0"
> 
> Laca
> 
> On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 19:40 +1200, Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 15:39 +0800, Henry Zhang wrote:
>>> Network team changed the dladm output mode, and virt-manager is using
>>> the output to get network card name and mac address, so we have to
>>> changed accordingly.
>> Is there any commitment for the stability of the output of dladm?
>> It's probably not a good idea to parse output intended for humans.
>> Is there a better interface you can use or can you ask the Network
>> team to add an option for machine-readable output?
>>
>> Laca
>>
>>
> 

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