James Carlson wrote:
> Dan Groves writes:
>> Sebastien Roy wrote:
>>> Dan Groves wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I posted a new link ID management API document.  It includes changes 
>>>> for comments received so far, plus a name change of the new service 
>>>> from network/linkmgmtd to network/dladmd
>>> Hmm, I'm still not enamored by that name.  How about 
>>> network/link-management?
>>>
>>> -Seb
>> I could do that (I agree that it is a better name).  I vaguely remember 
>> Meem mentioning to me a existing practice for naming daemons that 
>> command line tools interact with, which was you add a "d" to the name of 
>> the command to get the daemon.
> 
> That seems fine, but the existing practice for SMF is to give the
> service a name that's meaningful to humans -- not just a copy of the
> name of the daemon that happens to implement the service.
> 

Good point.

As far as I know, we're still not wedded to a name.  If that's true, and 
there's no objections, I'll change the name in the documents.

thanks,
Dan


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