Having entirely forgotten how svcprop -c / -C interact with which snapshot to use, I found the svcprop manpage a little unhelpful. In particular, whilst it does document that the 'running' snapshot is used by default, it's perhaps non-obvious that the way to get the current properties (no snapshot) is by specifying one of these options. I would suggest that some text after
"The -w and -s options can be used to change the source of properties." to clarify that -c / -C can also change the source, and describe exactly its effect. (On another note, I couldn't find documentation on what happens with composition when both the instance and the service have a property value. Did I miss it somewhere?) thanks, john