On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 04:00:36PM -0700, David Bustos wrote: > > I'd like SMF to be able to represent such analog dependencies. > > How about we make the NTP daemon capable of answering requests about > clock accuracy and have the NTP service come online as soon as it is > able to answer such queries, and have time-sensitive services decline to > provide functionality and mark themselves degraded until the NTP daemon > says the clock is sufficiently accurate?
That would work for me. With a convention on property naming we could get a consistent SMF interface to this (which is really what I'd want). Nico --