Jason King wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:13 PM, David Bustos <David.Bustos at sun.com>
> wrote:
>> Quoth Jason King on Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 02:07:08PM -0500:
>>> I can't seem to find anything that documents this, but are there any
>>> rules for valid fmri (specifically for services)? More specifically,
>>> are there any issues if the instance name is numeric (i.e.
>>> svc://site/foo:1 or such)?
>> Ceri answered your question about instance names. More generally, the
>> code for parsing FMRIs is at
>> http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/lib/libscf/common/lowlevel.c#5022
>> .
>> I think the only documentation is in the ARC case, which was supposed to
>> be opened, but I don't know the current status of. Anyway, it seems
>> like something that should be in the manual, so feel free to file a bug
>> at bugs.opensolaris.org .
>>
>>
>> David
>>
>
> I'll do that. To provide a bit of context, certain applications we
> run (in java) require Xvfb to be running, and for whatever reason,
> we've been having issues with them dieing. Not having had a lot of
> time to try to use some dtrace magic on them, I wanted to move them
> into smf services, where the display number would be the most logical
> way to identify each instance. However it appears I'll just have to
> spell them out.
If I remember correctly, numbers are allowed inside instance names, but not
as the first character, since I wanted to do something similar when defining
the x11-server SMF services, but had to settle for instance names such as
'x11-server:display0' instead of 'x11-server:0'.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
