[Attempted to restore mangling of headers] On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 05:26:32PM +0100, Casper.Dik at sun.com wrote:
> >> ipmievd's needs could be expressed in a different way: namely as a device > >> dependency. > > > >Indeed, this would also fix the same problem with the Xen services, where we > >can naturally depend upon one of the Xen devices. > > One problem with such dependencies is that they show up in "svcs -x"; > this may be taken as an indication that there's something wrong. That's presuming that it would behave exactly like a path dependency does, which wouldn't be useful. svc.startd could disable a service when it enters offline and a 'disable' dependency isn't met, or something. regards john
