[arc-discuss] [clearview-discuss] kstats vs vanity naming

[Richard Lowe]

[redirecting to arc-discuss for the purposes of this question]

Peter Memishian <peter.memishian at Sun.COM> writes:

>  > You're reducing (or changing) the interfaces that can be used
>  > to get network interface statistics.
>  > 
>  > While the APIs and ABIs are unchanged, software that works
>  > today using libkstats may stop working after a "dladm rename".
>
> That's just life with kstats -- the API is stable but the kstats
> themselves are not.  This is discussed in the PSARC kstats best
> practice (http://sac.eng/cgi-bin/bp.cgi?NAME=kstat.bp):
>

That bp doesn't seem to be available externally (at least that I can
find).

I'd like to request it be made available (I don't know if this is done
as with cases, or via other means).

I'd also like to make a blanket request that any opensolaris-relevant
(across both PSARC and LSARC) best practice be made available, if
there are more that aren't.

-- Rich