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Date:      Thu, 6 Mar 1997 18:58:52 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        mtaylor@cybernet.com (Mark Taylor)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "arp -n" option
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19970306185852.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970305181549.mtaylor@cybernet.com>; from Mark Taylor on Mar 5, 1997 15:33:03 -0500
References:  <XFMail.970305181549.mtaylor@cybernet.com>

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As Mark Taylor wrote:

> While performing a patch to /usr/sbin/arp to add the "-n" option,
> I noticed that it already existed!
> 
> The man page says nothing about it.  :)

This should be fixed.

> The only problem with using it is that it gets ignored when
> doing "arp -a -n", because when the "-a" option is seen in
> the switch() after getopt(), dump(0) is called immediately,
> and then arp exits.  The "-n" option must be first in order for
> it to work.

This should be fixed, too.  The dump() needs to be moved after the
switch.

Write a PR for it, preferably with a patch. ;)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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