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Date:      Sun, 20 Oct 2013 13:10:14 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r256768 - head/sbin/ifconfig
Message-ID:  <86iowsdwq1.fsf@nine.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <CAJ-Vmo=Av3eg64nK5QUVNJTO7z6=goD0XtXgmLcFT4fS7TnWFA@mail.gmail.com> (Adrian Chadd's message of "Sat, 19 Oct 2013 13:11:38 -0700")
References:  <201310190959.r9J9xBI1036988@svn.freebsd.org> <CAJ-Vmo=Av3eg64nK5QUVNJTO7z6=goD0XtXgmLcFT4fS7TnWFA@mail.gmail.com>

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Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>=20
> ... erm, this could break many existing scripts that stupidly(!) just
> try adding an interface to a group to see if it's already there.

Why would you do that instead of "ifconfig -g group | grep -w iface"?
And is it really more important than being able to restart an interface?

> Is the ifconfig error behavour in this instance documented anywhere?

No.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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