On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 02:36:12AM +0800, Peter Memishian wrote: > > > As a point of general design, we should always be extracting the new > > smf tools to a temporary location and using those tools, so you can > > avoid the need for flag-days of this nature. i.e. the archives themselves > > can move themselves past a flag day. > > In general, I'm not sure how this could work reliably -- e.g., if those > tools depend on new library API functionality which in turn depends on > paired kernel functionality. > > -- > meem
It doesn't work in all cases, but it's eminently reasonable and useful for svccfg. It depends on no fancy kernel interfaces, and is already written to be in effect stand-alone from most of the rest of SMF. -Mike -- Mike Shapiro, Solaris Kernel Development. blogs.sun.com/mws/
