Milan Jurik wrote: > Why not obsolete /var/svc/manifest? Has I-team some usage of it in the > future except backward compatibility?
From a very long-term interface stability goal point of view, Obsolete, but not EOFed would be OK. SMF would need to support it for quite some time though, so it would just be a paperwork step. The only explicit issue I see with marking it obsolete is that there is no customer alternative available, especially in older releases of S10. Customers and ISVs who need their software to work across all releases which have SMF would need to continue knowingly use /var/svc/manifest. (Most non-OS services are not particularly vulnerable to the bugs that can crop up from being part of late manifest import.) Through the Obsolete, I wouldn't want to give our customers/ISVs the impression that we were not going to support their multi-release deliveries of SMF services. So I'm thinking it's premature. liane
