> >[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.
So you'd want a new mechanism for this? (I'd suggest we do something similar for configuration file dependencies). Does SMF actually poll for missing files? Casper
