Peter Memishian wrote:

> > I'd be less worried about an output mode being an upper
> > case letter than -p having different meaning between dladm
> > and ipmpstat...or come up with a new option letter that you
> > can share between dladm and ipmpstat to serve this purpose.
>
>If you feel strongly about this, please bring it up as a gating issue
>during PSARC commitment.
>  
>

What do you think is going to make people using this command
swear and curse more:

- using -P (as opposed to -p) to get probe info and noting that
  this really should have been lower case like the other output
  modifiers (not to mention that using the shift key is bad)

or

- using -P with ipmpstat but -p with dladm and needing to
  remember that parsable output is achieved with different
  command line options for no good reason.

And I say "no good reason" because the design to have each
output modifier as a lower case letter will be lost (apart from
this thread) - unless it is specifically documented as being
that way.

I understand your desire to have a clean design for command
line option letters within ipmpstat but I'm appealing to your
appreciation of the problem that this will present to those who
actually have to use this to reconsider.

Darren


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