On 05/05/09 13:05, Peter Memishian wrote:
>  > Erik and I were talking about having multiple -p
>  > flags to our *adm commands, and Erik pointed out
>  > that this may not be a good idea because it complicates
>  > error-cases. e.g., if I do
>  > 
>  >   dladm set-linkprop -p p1=v1 -p badprop=badval -p p3=v3 link0
>  > 
>  > and "p1=v1" and "p3=v3" are syntactically correct,
>  > what is the error code ($?) returned to the shell after your
>  > fix for 6601421? And if $? is non-zero, are p1 and p3 set to v1 and v3?
>  > 
>  > Note that Girish and I tried this with zfs.. it would set as much
>  > as it can, and also return an error code, which is confusing.
>
> Indeed.
>   
would it preferable to return p1 and p3 to the previous values,
state which property couldn't be set and return an error?

-mike

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