> One of the areas that Sun believes it adds value to > the OS market is > stability and support. Therefore, Sun makes more > effort than many BSD or > Linux vendors to map out the stability/supportability > of interfaces > that we ship. You will notice that any Sun manpage > contains an "Attributes" > section which should highlight to the user whether or > not they should > consider using (e.g. linking against) any given > interface.
I just had to comment on this. This is one of the greatest things that Solaris has to offer. The "interface stability" attribute has saved my behind on numerous occassions, when I was pressed with making tough judgements calls on how to proceed on some architectural design. It's one of those subtle but ingenious mechanisms that make Solaris so dependable and reliable (and on a personal note, cool to work with). This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
