On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 03:14:10PM +0000, Tom Petty wrote: > Hi all, > > I’m trying to parse birdc output to process routing tables. While each > route entry has a timestamp associated with it, I can’t find a convenient > way of determining when the contents of a table were last changed, other > than parsing the entire table and checking the timestamps of each route. > > I’d like to avoid this, so is there a better way of determining when a > route table was last updated that I’m missing? If not, would a patch > adding a “time of last update” value to the table be of interest?
Hi I don't think we keep this stat, but it makes sense to do that. We already have some 'show table' patches (showing table-wide stats) outside of master branch, so we should merge them and include timestamp in them. -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: santi...@crfreenet.org) OpenPGP encrypted e-mails preferred (KeyID 0x11DEADC3, wwwkeys.pgp.net) "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."
