On 03/24/10 03:38 PM, Dave Miner wrote: > On 03/24/10 03:46 PM, Joseph J VLcek wrote: >> On 03/23/10 06:26 AM, Joseph J. VLcek wrote: >>> Hey Jack, (or anyone else who would know) >>> >>> I am adding a new DC finalizer script for populating a pkg(5) package >>> with the AI image bits. >>> >>> I had hoped to take advantage of the temp directory to pass a file of >>> data from an earlier checkpoint to the new checkpoint. >>> >>> However I have noticed that between checkpoints the temp directory, >>> passed to every finalizer script, is cleaned up. >>> >>> Are the temp directories cleaned up between checkpoints by design? >>> >>> Thank you. for any and all help. >>> >>> Joe >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> caiman-discuss mailing list >>> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >> >> >> Just to follow up. >> >> I had spoken with Jack about this on the phone. >> >> Currently when the distro constructor finishes it removes the contents >> of the tmp directory. This is true even it the dc is paused at a >> specific checkpoint. When resumed the contents of the temp directory are >> removed. >> >> The one line of code which removed the contents of the temp directory is >> in the main_func() of distro_consts just before return: >> >> >> dcu.cleanup_dir(cp.get_build_area_mntpt() + TMP) >> return (status) >> >> The proposed changed is to remove the dcu.cleanup_dir call and add a new >> finalizer script which can be run as the very last finalizer script >> which will clean up the contents of the temp directory. >> >> If anyone has a different suggestion please pass it along. >> > > I'd suggest instead that "distro_const build" when invoked without -R > or -r (in other words, starting from the beginning) should clean it > up, rather than doing it on exit or relying on it being a specific > finalizer script. I concur since I ran into this issue when trying to debug my changes. Often times it is useful to see the contents in the tmp directory.
-Sanjay > > Dave > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
