James Carlson wrote: >Darren Reed writes: > > >>2) it would seem the next place worth going is: >> zoneadm <subcommand> [all options] >> >>3) but what I'd rather do is: >> zoneadm <subcommand> <zonename> [all-options-except -z] >> >> > >You might want to review the CLIP specification and companion, as the >above goal seems to be out of step -- options are supposed to go >before the operand, not trailing after: > > http://opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2006/062/spec-clip-html/ > >I'm not really a fan of CLIP, but I am a fan of consistency. To the >degree we can manage it, we shouldn't have individual utilities >striking out to explore new command line syntax territory. > >
CLIP delivered us inetadm, zoneadm and svcadm all new in Solaris 10. Given the disparity between these three new commands, I'm going to declare CLIP a failure and that we should just ignore it. >I'm still really unclear on what problem we're solving. Is it just >that zlogin has a command line that behaves like rlogin (needing no >option to select "host"), and that zoneadm/zonecfg use an option to >specify the same thing. > The problem is the lack of consistency between *adm commands. inetadm should probably be whacked as well - if we care about it enough. Darren _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
