User-Defined Section Keywords

In addition to the keywords that are defined by the Solaris Flash archive, you can define other keywords. The Solaris Flash archive ignores user-defined keywords, but you can provide scripts or programs that process the archive identification section and use user-defined keywords. Use the following format when creating user-defined keywords:

• Begin the keyword name with an X.

• Create the keyword with any characters other than linefeeds, equal signs, and null characters.

• Suggested naming conventions for user-defined keywords include the underscore-delimited descriptive method used for the predefined keywords. Another convention is a federated convention similar to the naming of Java packages.

For example, X-department is a valid name for a user-defined keyword.

For an example of using options to include user-defined keywords in the archive identification section, see Example 3–9.