Bart Smaalders wrote:
> Jordan Brown wrote:
>>
>> Bart Smaalders wrote:
>>> Ed McKnight wrote:
>>>> My reading of threads on this topic suggest that if my package pings 
>>>> an SMF script (with refresh, for example) on uninstall that the 
>>>> invocation happens before the bits delivered by the package are 
>>>> actually removed from the filesystem. True?
>>> yes
>>
>> How does this work in a non-running-root case?
>>
>>>> If true, is it asynch, i.e. the SMF invocation is launched and runs 
>>>> while uninstall continues, or synch, i.e. the SMF action is launched 
>>>> and completes before uninstallation continues?
>>>>
>>> if not, it should be ;-)
>>
>> Err... it should be synchronous, or it should be asynchronous?
> 
> synchronous; if shutdown takes a bit we don't want to be uninstalling
> binaries we're still executing.

So how does this work for non-running roots, when the goal is to run a 
service that does some sort of cleanup (e.g. removing a cron job)?
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