>What we're actually thinking about here is a daemon that emulates the
>/var/sadm/install/contents file; the first time the file would be read
>after a pkg{add,rm} a new global contents file would be constructed
>from all the per-package contents files. After that, the cached
>global version would be used until another pkg cmd was used.
>
>The mechanism to do this doesn't exist yet, but it's under active
>discussion. The simplest idea is the ability to have a daemon
>respond to open/stat commands on the file; it would return a
>fd to the kernel which could be used for either operation....
Would the daemon always run or does this require a new kernel mechanism
to autostart daemons?
How do you propose the daemon handles:
rename("t.contents", "contents"):
(In case someone runs old packaging tools)
Casper
