On 2015 Mar 27 (Fri) at 11:54:16 +0100 (+0100), Henning Brauer wrote: :* Florian Obser <flor...@openbsd.org> [2015-03-26 18:36]: :> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 05:46:12PM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote: :> > * Mike Belopuhov <m...@belopuhov.com> [2015-03-26 14:36]: :> > > however I agree that if we do this for ipv6 we should do it for ipv4 as well :> > > but then do we care about tons of stuff out there parsing ifconfig output? :> > that's the prime question. I would love to move to CIDR notation - are :> > we breaking people's scripts with that? The inet side has been the same :> > for, what, decades? :> Of course this breaks stuff :) : :uh, now that you mention it, I didn't chose a very obvious way to ask :the question - of course the ifconfig output change breaks scripts :parsing ifconfig output, the real question being: how common are :scripts doing that? :
I am happy to break scripts, when people aren't using CIDR ;) -- Due to lack of disk space, this fortune database has been discontinued.
