My proverbial two cents is that is changing the semantics of an option, semantics which go back literally decades. New semantics should be associated with new options.
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 2:48 AM Denis Ovsienko <de...@ovsienko.info> wrote: > Hello list. > > At https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/pull/702 there is a > simple proposed change, which seems to be an improvement: > ------------------------- > Subject: Introduce -nn option > > This changes the semantics on -n option so only namelookups are skipped. > Port > numbers *are* translated to their string representations. Option -nn then > has > the same semantics as -n had originally. > > This is a partial upstreaming of tcpdump-4.9.2-3 used in CentOs 7.5. > ------------------------- > > If anybody sees how this change isn't an improvement, please make your > point on the list. > > Thank you. > > -- > Denis Ovsienko > > > _______________________________________________ > tcpdump-workers mailing list > tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org > https://lists.sandelman.ca/mailman/listinfo/tcpdump-workers > _______________________________________________ tcpdump-workers mailing list tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org https://lists.sandelman.ca/mailman/listinfo/tcpdump-workers
