Can someone sponsor this man page to be added to the OpenSolaris Content Project (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/content/) or to the System Administration Documentation list (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/doc_index/sysadmin/) or some other appropriate place? I could add it to the System Administration Documentation list myself, but I want to get community agreement to do that.
> I was recently hacking on some of the scripts in > /lib/svc/method to change the way my OpenSolaris > install booted. In the process I found myself needing > to understand what all these scripts were actually > doing. This was going along well until I hit a line > that had this: > devfsadm -I > > I ran off to the man page to see what this -I option > does and surprisingly its not documented. At the time > I decided to leave off the option which lead to much > troubleshooting later on. All of that effort could > have been avoided if these options were documented > were all system administrators look for those > answers. > > I filed a bug on this because obviously -I(and -P > that i found later) are legitimate options that the > devfsadm program understands. The bug is located > here: > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6707975 > > > In response to the bug I was told these options are > "private" options by the engineer working on the bug. > The source for this command is freely available > here: > http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/ > usr/src/cmd/devfsadm/devfsadm.c > In the switch block at line 738 I was able to get a > good idea of what these options do based on the > comments. Obviously, they are not *that* private if > the source is easily obtained and understood. > > I bring this up here because if OpenSolaris is going > to be an open source project all aspects of it need > to behave like one and this is clearly an area that > is exhibiting a closed source mind set still. > > I have attached an updated version of the man page > for devfsadm to this post based on what the comments > in devfsadm.c indicated. This message posted from opensolaris.org
