Alan Maguire wrote: > right, but consider the consequences of representing > temporary entities as SMF instances - the semantics > of enabling an instance imply that the enable action > is persistent, i.e. the service instance will be enabled > at next boot also.
svcadm doesn't seem to have such stringent semantics when enabling a service instance with the "-t" option. > if we support an instance representation > for temporary entities (which can be manipulated by > svcadm), my fear is that it will set expectations in this > direction. But if temporary data-links are not represented as SMF instances, how will the rest of the NWAM stack (IP and above) cope with these? Doesn't the entire design hinge on IP instances depending on data-link instances? -Seb
