this is a question about coding style/best practice, not about use. According to our plan, the (initial?) implementation of "ilbadm show-statistics" will in fact consist of a thin shim of check arguments-style work in ilbadm, and a ksh script that calls kstat(1M) and does some munging of the output before presenting it to the caller.
If we strictly follow the precedent all other ilbadm subcommands have set, we'd have to pass the show-statistics command from ilbadm through libilb into ilbd, which would then fork a process to run the script and pipe the output all the way to the caller. While this is certainly feasible, it looks like a non-trivial amount of overhead that we actually don't need - I'd advocate that ilbadm directly exec() the script in question and be done. I'd like to solicit your opinion on whether this sounds like an acceptable approach, and if not, what the objections are. TIA Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'
