* Darren Reed <Darren.Reed at sun.com> [2009-06-03 14:04]:
> Namespace
> =========
> Now that the file has been shipped for a number of years, we need
> to make reasonable guesses about what customers may have done since
> its delivery. One such guess is that they may have created projects
> with names similar or the same as SMF FMRIs or executables with which
> they are associated. Thus in creating a new project to be shipped by
> default, using a name such as "login" or "init" or "inetd" cannot be
> considered to be without risk.
Although it seems to have been slightly mangled in the translation to
a product manpage in project(4):
projname The name of the project. The name must be a
string that consists of alphanumeric charac-
ters, underline (_) characters, hyphens (-),
and periods (.). The period, which is reserved
for projects with special meaning to the
operating system, can be used only in the
names of default projects for users. projname
cannot contain colons (:) or newline charac-
ters.
you, as an operating system designer, are allowed to use '.' to
provide an escape from the otherwise flat namespace. I would probably
avoid the stock symbol prefix, and merely use "svc.inetd", etc.
(The mangling is the "used only" case, which is a statement that there
are only a few known reserved patterns at present.)
- Stephen
