On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 06:52:02PM +0200, Darren Reed wrote:
> Just to clarify, the above question is asking about what's needed
> at some point in the future, not now. It's asking about what's needed
> for future architecture, not what can be done and is supported now.
> Maybe I should have said "Will those..."

I guess opinions will vary.  IMO code duplication in self-assembly
advocates for new IPS action types.  The most commonly edited editable
files in /etc should get IPS actions even before we see such code
duplication, but I bet we'd have a hard time agreeing as to what those
commonly edited editable are :)

For example, is /etc/services important here?  I suspect the answer is
"no" because apps usually have port numbers hardcoded as a fallback when
the desired services(4) entry is not found, so failing to edit
/etc/services on pkg install seems mostly harmless.  And what about
/etc/default/*?  RBAC files seem to be a better candidate for new IPS
actions than either of those.

Self-assembly FMRI namespace pollution too seems problematic for me.
Perhaps we should have a naming convention for SMF services whose only
purpose is to do self-assembly -- a prefix like svc:/self-assembly/*,
say.
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