Peter Memishian wrote: > > For instance, the specification of the zone to which a name applies > > could be implicit, e.g. during the creation of a zone from zonecfg(1M), > > or explicit when invoking dladm(1M). > > By "explicit when invoking dladm" do you mean that I'd have to also > include a zone name? That's exactly the part that concerns me, since it > means higher-level consumers of dladm or libdladm have to start tracking > zone names along with link names -- and update this state on a zone > rename. Possible, but neither simple nor beautiful.
That's what I had in mind, and I agree that we need to be careful here. An alternative would be to restrict the management of these zone-local link names from within zone configuration tools. Nicolas. -- Nicolas Droux, Solaris Kernel Networking Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://blogs.sun.com/droux
