Peter Memishian wrote:
>  > A customer is running Solaris with the Vanity Naming changes on a 
>  > machine with lots of links.
>  > 
>  > Currently, network/physical starts after linkmgmtd.  linkmgmtd's start 
>  > script terminates as soon as linkmgmtd has daemonized.  linkmgmtd does 
>  > the following after daemonization:
>  >    - the avls used to store link data
>  >    - open the SMF connection
>  >    - populate the avls with data read from SMF
>  >    - linkmgmtd initializes the door (calls door_create)
> 
> Right, but I thought the whole discussion centered on what race would
> exist if we were to change daemonization to be after all of the above.
> Assuming proper SMF dependencies, it shouldn't happen since the linkmgmtd
> service won't be considered online until after daemonization, at which
> point it will be ready.  Any door requests that come in before then
> are spurious.
> 

Changing when daemonization took place was a suggestion to fix the race.

Dan



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