dtrace discuss - Jan 2008 - ARC case for "Contract ''decoration'' with service FMRI"

I would like to submit for review the ARC case for RFE: contract 
''decoration'' with service FMRI
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=5079353

I believe dtrace will be a major consumer from this RFE and would 
appreciate any feedback on it. I am looking specifically for logical 
consistency with other similar features used by dtrace.

If possible, I would ask for feedback to be sent by Monday Jan 21, 2008 
to try and expedite the ARC case.

Thanks,

Antonello

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Antonello Cruz writes:
>     Creator Auxiliary:
> 
>       This term allows a particular creator to further describe the
>       purpose of a contract.  In general, the values of this term are
>       undefined by this case; it is up to individual creators to create
>       and follow conventions.  For example, svc.startd could (and will,
>       see below) use this field to store the method name.
More generally, is this expected to be an arbitrary text string
defined by the creator of the contract?  If so, then I think some
advice about (or perhaps restrictions on) character sets and languages
used might be needed.

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James Carlson wrote:
> Antonello Cruz writes:
>>     Creator Auxiliary:
>>
>>       This term allows a particular creator to further describe the
>>       purpose of a contract.  In general, the values of this term are
>>       undefined by this case; it is up to individual creators to create
>>       and follow conventions.  For example, svc.startd could (and will,
>>       see below) use this field to store the method name.
> 
> More generally, is this expected to be an arbitrary text string
> defined by the creator of the contract?  If so, then I think some
> advice about (or perhaps restrictions on) character sets and languages
> used might be needed.
> 
James,

You''re right, thanks for the heads up!

I''ll restrict it to C locale and update the ARC case draft and 
process(4) man page.

Antonello
PS: please find the updated files attached
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