Glenn Faden wrote: 

>>>>     This seems different from "zone," which I can intuit being used
>>>>     for internal bookkeeping in allocate/deallocate to identify the
>>>>     labeled zone where the allocated device nodes reside.
>>>>         
>>>
>>> It is not related to zone. Remember that in a given zone there could 
>>> be a hundred Sun Ray users, each with their own xdpy value.
>>>     
>>
>>
>>     That's what I was trying to say "zone" was used internally for
>>     bookkeeping and allocate/deallocate/list_devices filtering.
>>     There is no proposed equivalent to "-c" (class) or "-z" (zonename)
>>     to filter on "xdpy".
>>   
>
>
> zone is one of the keywords output by list_devices.

I don't see list_devices returning of zone is one of the keywords output 
on TX.
Did I miss anything here?.

Thanks
P.S.M.Swamiji

> It is interpreted by the GUI, which looks up the label of the device 
> and displays it.
>
>>     It seems like there are missing interfaces one way or another.
>>     More filter options, or stable parsable output options for
>>     list_devices seem the alternatives.    
>
> Yes, the output of list_devices is stable in that it consists of 
> key=value pairs separated by colons. The keys are extensible.
>
>>     I'm not trying to design on the fly here.  The design's up to
>>     the project team.
>>   
>
> The design was completed long ago, but the interfaces have not been 
> properly conveyed to PSARC.
>
> --Glenn
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