On Thu, Jul 27 2017, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > On 2017/07/27 19:53, Denis Fondras wrote: >> Thank you for your comment. >> >> > This will lead to usage and documentation issues (aside from your >> > diff not including a manpage change): >> > >> >> You are right, I missed the manpage bits. >> >> > With your diff, someone might write somewhere >> > >> > just type "route a default 192.0.2.1" to configure a default route. >> > >> > Next we add a new keyword "abc"... >> > >> >> I took bgpctl as an example. If there is an ambiguity, route(8) will >> complain. >> As stated in the man "Commands may be abbreviated to the minimum unambiguous >> prefix". I guess the shortcuts are to be used only interactively. Using the >> longer keyword in a script or in hostname.if is not an issue. > > If people can use it on the command line, they'll copy and paste it into > hostname.if files or other scripts too. Current ambiguities aren't the > concern, possible future ambiguities are.
Same concerns here. -- jca | PGP : 0x1524E7EE / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE
