> The distinction between statistic and property seems a bit contrived to > me, and ultimately it is confusing to users.
I think most of the muddiness comes from abuse. In principle, one is intended to be a countable entity that should generally increment with time, and the other is intended to be an administratively configurable entity. Considered another way, you should be able to make pretty graphs and plots from kstats, but not from properties. > Conversely, I love that we have dladm show-wifi and the proposed dladm > show-ether which will show only the most relevant properties and > status. In this model, I believe that most folks would learn to use > just those, and only revert to dladm show-linkprop when they really, > really want to see the full output, or when they want to query the value > of a particular statistic/property. We differ here only in the depth and scope of the show-linkprop output. Otherwise, I agree. -- meem
