Garrett D'Amore wrote: > 3) Also for complex data --- um, why are we trying to parse it from > tools like awk and sh in the first place? I mean, if the main > consumer for this kind of data are things like GUI applications such > as nwam, why not write those applications in a real language, and > provide access to the data in a form that is "natural" to the > language -- e.g. structured C data, or hashes in Perl, and so > forth? (We do have libdladm, right?) This has the added benefit of > separating the data meant to be consumed by application developers > from the data used by administrators, and ultimately making the man > pages that the admin has to read smaller and hence simpler. :-)
libdladm.so ? Not the worst idea I've heard, but I doubt resources would be allocated. - jek3
