On 02/25/09 13:40, James Carlson wrote: > Michael Schuster writes: >> 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. > > Why wouldn't you call the libkstat(3LIB) functions to read the values > directly?
1) we already have the script from the prototype phase; adapting that to current needs seems much less work than re-writing. 2) independent of 1), I think shell and awk lend themselves nicely to this kind of string manipulation work. Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'
