[snip]
So, maybe, while following the POLA, we should add an option, as Daniel
mentioned above? To output the CIDR?
Eh... I don't know if doing this would be wise because it might break
some 3rd party mechanisms for parsing the output (as broken as you
might think it is), in particular (for example) because people can
alias the ifconfig command to something else.
If we'll introduce such ifconfig option (i.e. ifconfig -c) nothing is
going to break: ifconfig's default behavior won't change, and people,
who will alias `ifconfig' to `ifconfig -c' are their own enemies. User
should think about consequences of such actions.
--
wbr,
Boo
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