David Bustos writes: > Quoth Steve Peng on Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 04:02:45PM -0700: > > well. I have posted the new incremental webrev under > > > > http://cr.opensolaris.org/~stevep/6351623-2 [SNIP] > > 1272: What will happen if src is different from be->be_path? > I suppose src will probably be differently sized, so > backend_switch_copy() will fail. If they happen to be the same > size, but with different contents, then any data we have cached in > memory could be wrong. I don't know what would happen, but I don't > think I can rule out it being very bad. I think it would be better > to just use be->be_path and stop allowing src to be specified by the > client.
In the early days of this project when Steve and I were kicking ideas around, I think that I suggested that we allow the client to specify source and destination. My thinking was that this might be useful in writing test tools. I'm now convinced that it was a bad idea. I think that David is right in that we should not allow the client to specify the source file. configd should know what repository it is working with. tom
