PSARC/2007/677 Allow ypinit -c to use IP addresses

[Paul Wernau]

Darren J Moffat wrote:
> Paul Wernau wrote:
>> Do others find this useful?  One could simply write to the file 
>> directly.  It's listed in the ypinit man page under FILES, so I assume 
>> this is fair game.
> 
> The name of the file is but the format of it is not.  It isn't clear 
> what the interface taxonomy of the file really is given how old it is. 
> I'd personally say that even though it isn't documented it is probably 
> de facto Committed.

That's my personal feeling as well.  It is naive to think that the 
format is not relied upon.  It is sedimented into support documentation 
all over the place, including for other operating systems, where it is 
consistent with solaris.  Further ypfiles(4) ambiguously describes it to 
some degree.  To change this format would be a support nightmare.

-Paul