>Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: >>> That is what we current have, except that the door file is currently in >>> /etc >>> (/etc/.dlmgmt_door) instead of /etc/dladm, but it caused flashinstall >>> problem described in >>> this case. >>> >> >> Why was it made into a hidden file? Why not in /var/run? >> >> Casper >> > >According to the original mail: > > > > Note that although the /var/run directory seems a better place to > > hold door files, it is mounted much later in boot by the > > filesystem/minimal service, therefore cannot be used in this case. > > >It seems to me that we're working around a lot of problems here in >other areas....
I guess that in hindsight /var/run was not such a cool location after all; /var/run needs to be created *after* /var is mounted and that might be fairly late. Casper
