* James Carlson <james.d.carlson at Sun.COM> [2008-12-24 13:43]: > Shawn Walker writes: > > Tom Whitten wrote: > > > Both - and _ are allowed in property names. > > > > I know they're both allowed, but I was wondering what the general > > practice or preference was (for OpenSolaris). > > There are both. But wc tells me that '-' is favored by about a 3-to-1 > margin: > > % svcs -a -o fmri | grep -v ^lrc: | grep _ | wc -l > 19 > % svcs -a -o fmri | grep - | wc -l > 57
We definitely prefer '-' in service and instance names. I suspect we prefer '_' in property names. Property groups, probably, too, but a scan of svcprop(1) output suggests we've been less consistent there. (And I don't think we want '_' as a word separator in GNU-style command options.) - Stephen
