Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] ip: Simplify executing ip cmd within namespace

From: Nicolas Dichtel <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 13:50:17 +0100

Le 11/12/2014 11:57, [email-masked] a écrit :
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:58:21AM +0100, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
>> Le 10/12/2014 23:56, Vadim Kochan a écrit :
>>> From: Vadim Kochan <[email-masked]>
>>>
>>> Added new '-ns' option to simplify executing following cmd:
>>>
>>>      ip netns exec NETNS ip OPTIONS COMMAND OBJECT
>>>
>>>      to
>>>
>>>      ip -ns NETNS OPTIONS COMMAND OBJECT
>>>
>>> e.g.:
>>>
>>>      ip -ns vnet0 link add br0 type bridge
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Vadim Kochan <[email-masked]>
>>> ---
>>> May be new option should have better name than '-ns' ?
>> What about 'ip -netns' to be explicit like other options?
>> user may still use 'ip -n' at the end.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Nicolas
>
> May be left '-n' for some other future option, but use the following
Options parsing in iproute2 will match -netns when typing -n because there
is no other options that begin with a 'n' (I've done a quick look, maybe I've
missed one).
Like -d which matches -details, etc.

> options: -net[ns] and -ns ? What do you think ?
One option is enough. '-netns' is an explicit reference to 'ip netns'.

Regards,
Nicolas