On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 08:51:54PM -0400, Jerry Van Baren wrote:
Kumar Gala wrote:
On Jul 9, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Jerry Van Baren wrote:
Thinking out loud... we could define the syntax that a leading *
indicates the first part of the path is a dereference of /aliases.
Assuming
David Gibson wrote:
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 08:51:54PM -0400, Jerry Van Baren wrote:
[snip]
I've CC:ed David Gibson in case he has some advice - the concept is to
indicate a dereference of /aliases nodes so that us lazy engineers don't
have to cut'n'paste the whole long path from the
Kumar Gala wrote:
On Jul 9, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Jerry Van Baren wrote:
Thinking out loud... we could define the syntax that a leading *
indicates the first part of the path is a dereference of /aliases.
Assuming
/aliases/soc = /[EMAIL PROTECTED]
/aliases/ethernet0 = /[EMAIL
If the path we are trying to print doesn't exist see if it matches an
aliases. We don't do anything fancy at this point, but just strip the
leading '/' if it exists and see if we have an exact match to an alias.
In the future we could try and prefix matching so the alias could be used
as a
Kumar Gala wrote:
If the path we are trying to print doesn't exist see if it matches an
aliases. We don't do anything fancy at this point, but just strip the
leading '/' if it exists and see if we have an exact match to an alias.
In the future we could try and prefix matching so the alias
Kumar Gala wrote:
On Jul 9, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Jerry Van Baren wrote:
Kumar Gala wrote:
If the path we are trying to print doesn't exist see if it matches an
aliases. We don't do anything fancy at this point, but just strip the
leading '/' if it exists and see if we have an exact match
