2009/200 Solaris Simlinks

Scott Rotondo Scott.Rotondo at Sun.COM
Thu Mar 26 16:33:58 PDT 2009


James Carlson wrote:
> I'm sponsoring this fast-track request for Rishi Srivatsavai.  The
> timer is set to 04/02/2009.
> 
> 
> This project introduces simlinks  with stability level of Uncommitted,
> the private data-link properties  for simlinks are Project Private and
> the release binding is Minor.
> 
> 
> Simulated links (simlinks) are pseudo  GLDv3 network devices that aid in
> the  creation of  point-to-point network  links  on a  system. 

Simlinks is a really unfortunate name, bound to cause confusion with 
symlinks (symbolic links). Is this term in common use elsewhere?

	Scott

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