2009/200 Solaris Simlinks

[Rishi Srivatsavai]

Scott Rotondo wrote:
> 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?

I don't think it is used much elsewhere (our project gate is the 5th result
in Google) and I doubt it would cause much confusion given that this
is a testing resource. But if it does we can certainly re-visit the 
choice of name in future.

Rishi