crossbow discuss - Nov 2007 - CR6539793 (add-flow failed issue)

Refer to 
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/crossbow/CrossbowBeta/manpagesfeb2007/  
for flow command description.

This concerns CR6539793 where the add-flow failed because the flow 
already exists. I have a recommendation to resolve this issue and I am 
sending this out for review/comment.

The user is seeing an error when he/she tries to add a flow while a 
persistant flow of the same name exists in flowadm.conf
This situation exists because the user did a temporary remove prior to 
this and the temporary remove did not remove from the persistant state. 
I am recommending changing the printf statement to explain to the user 
that a permanent remove of this flow must be performed first. The 
wording could be "add-flow failed - Attempting to add a flow that 
collides with an existing persistent one"

Any feedback would be appreciated.

Thank You.

Dave Hostetter