> > How can the stop method know if it's been called as part of a system > shutdown or an svcadm disable invocation? > by calling `who -r` to get the run level.
> >> That would make SMF happy (the daemon it knows about is gone), and the >> real daemon would be permitted to hang around as long as it needs to. >> > > What happens if the daemon crashes and has to get restarted? Surely it > will miss events, and this will be as bad as being stopped while some > watched filesystems are still mounted, right? Is there a deeper > robustness issue here? > Its not a robustness issue is either case. Its an acceptable pain issue. Any time the event manager misses events (due to crash, inappropriate shutdown, etc), it will the affected file systems will be scanned when ADM comes back up. Its ok to scan large file systems as an error recovery solution, but its not ok for normal startup procedure.
