[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > This isn't ZFS, though. It's yet another networking command, and in > > the family of networking commands (e.g., netstat), "-o <field>" is > > just unknown. > > The introduction of "-o <field>" provides a nice improvement to the > 80-column output problem (especially for wrapper scripts that > administrators may write), and we're proposing it throughout the dladm > subcommand set (it's not unique to WiFi). Personally, I hope we follow > suit with other new networking commands.
For what it's worth, that's completely counter to both the CLIP ARC opinion and the new CLIP companion document. Enhancing one command out of a family of related commands is a bad idea because it promotes user confusion. Reasonable users will ask why we did this here, but didn't bother to update netstat as well, and why netstat has a handy "-v" flag but this command does not. I'm not saying that it's not a useful feature -- I think it is, and I think it helps a lot with producing stable output -- but the usability concerns themselves don't necessarily support piecemeal improvements. -- James Carlson, KISS Network <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
