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From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
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Subject: Re: misc/87574: ifconfig create does not print device name to
	STDOUT when creation was successfull
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The following reply was made to PR kern/87574; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: Vladimir Kotal <vlada@devnull.cz>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/87574: ifconfig create does not print device name to STDOUT when creation was successfull
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:30:03 -0700

 The manpage is correct, if perhaps poorly worded.  You have to read the
 sentence before the one you quoted.  The key word is arbitrary.
 ifconfig prints the name of the create interface if and only if it
 differs from the name given:
 
 [2:25pm] brooks@varan (~): uname -v
 FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #7: Tue Mar  1 11:47:43 PST 2005
 [2:26pm] brooks@varan (~): sudo ifconfig gif create
 Password:
 gif0
 [2:26pm] brooks@varan (~): sudo ifconfig gif1 create
 [2:26pm] brooks@varan (~):
 
 This is the most useful behavior because if gives you the interface name
 on stdout (and thus requires you do deal with it) if and only if you
 didn't already know it.
 
 -- Brooks