[Toybox] complaining about 'ifconfig' - better use 'ip'

[Bastian Bittorf]

* Isaac Dunham <idunham at lavabit.com> [05.04.2013 09:00]:
> Because that note is not in the original man page; meaning that it was "deprecated" by a third party (though there is a note under "BUGS" at the end, saying "please use ip link" for showing full address information on Infiniband--but then, is anyone planning to use infiniband with toybox? And do we have to be bug-for-bug compatible?).
> See:
> http://net-tools.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=net-tools/net-tools;a=blob;f=man/en_US/ifconfig.8

thanks for this link. rob is right, this is only a limitation of the
original ioctl thingy, which is not a problem when using netlink
(with a fresh implementation). this BUG affects also tunnels...

> Digging that up indicates that net-tools is very much alive, with at least 5 regular contributors within the past year or two and several 6 weeks ago.

"very much" 8-)

bastian at box:~/net-tools$ git log --after="2012/06/31" --pretty=format:"Author: %an" | wc -l
26
bastian at box:~/net-tools$ git log --after="2012/06/31" --pretty=format:"Author: %an" | sort | uniq | wc -l
5

bastian at box:~/iproute2$ git log --after="2012/06/31" --pretty=format:"Author: %an" | wc -l
190
bastian at box:~/iproute2$ git log --after="2012/06/31" --pretty=format:"Author: %an" | sort | uniq | wc -l
49

but anyway, it says only where the devs are at the moment.
(and like rob mentioned: 'cat' has not touched since a long time and is good 8-)

bye, bastian

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