O > > If his stop method succeeds, SMF sees (through the contract) that he > > lied, and kills his daemon off anyway. > > If his stop method fails, SMF whines about it. > > If his stop method doesn't return (and assuming that he's disabled > > timeout), then it blocks the shutdown. > Correct.
Why not make the stop method a little more intelligent so that it doesn't block forever ? Maybe the event daemon (or whatever the troublesome process) needs to run in a separate contract to decouple it a bit from SMF, but a little more massaging of the stop method might be the ticket. Bob
