[clearview-discuss] [brussels-dev] dladm IP address options

[Sowmini Varadhan]

> 
> > On a related note, why don't dladm nor flowadm use
>  getsubopt() for their
> > -p handling (-p <propname>=<propval>,...)?  It
> looks like there's a
>  > re-implementation of getsubopt() in libdladm...
> Probably just historical.
> 
> -- 
> meem

Actually it's more complicated than that: getsubopt expects a fixed set of
constant option names (e.g.., local=, remote=), whereas the property strings 
are not a fixed set outside the libraries.
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