On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:28:15AM +1200, Ian Collins wrote: > On 09/22/10 11:24 AM, Jonathan Adams wrote: > >On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 08:49:25AM +1200, Ian Collins wrote: > >>On 09/21/10 06:23 PM, Peter Taps wrote: > >>>Folks, > >>> > >>>Is the API for zfs documented anywhere? > >>> > >>>Specifically, I am looking at zpool_create() method. I have looked at > >>>the source code for zpool command line. However, it is not clear on > >>>what the last three parameters to the function are and how to fill > >>>them. > >>> > >>The best documentation for libzfs functions is the user command code > >>that uses them. > >And they are not public, and may change in completely incompatible ways > >without > >notice. That's why all of the symbols are versioned "SUNWprivate_1.1". > > > Where is this versioning documented? > > There's nothing in the header and libzfs doesn't have a man page.
The lack of a manpage is the first clue that it's not a public interface. Most private-only libraries don't ship a "libfoo.so" symlink, but for some reason libzfs.so exists; not sure why. Cheers, - jonathan _______________________________________________ zfs-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-code
