On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 08:11:09AM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > Jordan Brown wrote: > > On the other hand, declaring it in the manifest means that it's visible > > by default through svcprop and svccfg listprop. Since it's an > > undocumented option that users should never have to mess with, that > > seems undesirable. > > > > What I would like would be a way to declare a property to be "hidden", > > so that by default it isn't shown by any of the user interfaces. If > > it's set to a non-default value, then it should be shown. > > Yuck. I think I'd rather see this trait of SMF used to drive a > friendlier administrative model rather than used as an excuse to hide > things from the user.
Private interface != secret interface. Interface stability of non-hidden interfaces should be documented in such a way that the user can see it. That should fall under the purview of SMF Template Extensions, no? Nico --
