Quoth Nicolas Williams on Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 05:38:07PM -0500: > Below is my first draft of an ARC case for this. Please review.
Thanks for taking the initiative on this, Nico. > PROBLEM > ------- > > svcprop(1) output does not unambiguously distinguish the individual > values of multi-valued properties. This makes it difficult to script > around svcprop(1). Can we make this more precise? Isn't the problem that when svcprop quotes newline, it does so with a backslash, which is difficult to use with "read"? > PROPOSAL > -------- > > Add two options for providing shell-friendly output for multi-valued > properties: > > - svcprop -m ... ... > - svcprop -o sh ... ... Can you explain why a developer would choose one over the other? I suspect that the former is useful when the developer wants to process values with embedded newlines differently than those without. But I might be missing something. David
