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From: Whit Blauvelt <whit@transpect.com>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] RTNETLINK answers: File exists
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 01:12:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-100682374223722@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-100679899116747@msgid-missing>

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 01:22:08PM -0500, Whit Blauvelt wrote:

> # ip route del default via 65.84.205.97 dev eth2

....

> # ip route add default via 65.84.205.97 dev eth2
> RTNETLINK answers: File exists

Let me be clear about this: anything that can be deleted, should be able to
be added. The "File exists" message is quite wrong, since no file creation
has been requested - this is about a route. The error message is worthless,
stupid, and just plain wrong.

Has Linus really allowed such nonsense to be integrated with the kernel?
It's a totally cool idea, being able to do Cisco-type stuff with Linux. But
if the implementation is this lame, it shouldn't have been integrated at
all.

Sorry for being pissed off, but please don't contribute anything to Linux
that isn't done consistently and right!

Whit

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-11-27  1:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-26 18:22 [LARTC] RTNETLINK answers: File exists Whit Blauvelt
2001-11-26 18:50 ` Julian Anastasov
2001-11-26 18:56 ` Greg Scott
2001-11-26 19:18 ` Julian Anastasov
2001-11-27  0:51 ` Whit Blauvelt
2001-11-27  1:01 ` Whit Blauvelt
2001-11-27  1:12 ` Whit Blauvelt [this message]
2001-11-27 10:46 ` Julian Anastasov
2005-06-10 15:07 ` Dariusz Dwornikowski
2005-06-11  2:37 ` gypsy
2005-06-11  9:41 ` Dariusz Dwornikowski
2005-06-11 10:11 ` Thomas Graf

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