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
