On 04/09/10 20:44, Alan Wright wrote: > I honestly can't see what value a list would add to this case. > The examples in the case material provide way more information > than such a list because they provide context, and one can > always obtain a list by running kstat at the command line. > > If an interface table is desirable, how about: > > Interfaces > ________________________________________________________________ > | Imported Interface | Classification | Comments | > |________________________|___________________|__________________| > | smbsrv kstats | Project | | > | | Private | | > |________________________|___________________|__________________| > > Alan
Did you name the stats you are using something opaque or something vaguely intelligible? I am going to guess the latter. So, we know that the kstat output was explicitly designed to be machine readable, i.e. able to be an interface. So, with library interfaces we have man pages to tell us what each is and we know if there doesn't exist a man page, then that interface is private. Tell me, where is the list of public kstats? As a programmer, I see something I would like to use in the kstats output, and looking at the source code I see that it tallies exactly what I need. How do I find out if it is public or private? I might plug it into Google and see what I get. If you don't list it in your proposal, then I get nothing, or just where it is found in the source code. If you do list it, then the single hit that is not in the source code is going to be your table, where it is clearly listed as private. Darn, I am out of luck. Unless and until we get a standard set of docs that definitively lists what is public, then in proposals like this one is the only place these interfaces are documented. You don't have to do this now, when you integrate make a list from the kstat output and send it so it gets added to the mail file. How hard is that? -- blu It's bad civic hygiene to build technologies that could someday be used to facilitate a police state. - Bruce Schneier ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Utterback - Solaris RPE, Oracle Corporation. Ph:877-259-7345, Em:brian.utterb...@oracle.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-arc mailing list opensolaris-arc@opensolaris.org
