Quoth Christine Tran on Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:02:39PM -0400: > Jordan Brown (Sun) wrote: > > How is > > <create_default_instance enabled="..."/> > > different from > > <instance name="default" enabled="..."/> > > ? ... > Slightly: create_default_instance will create the general/package > property if $PKGINST is set.
Hmm, good observation. That seems like a bug, though -- I can't think of a good reason why those forms shouldn't be equivalent. (Perhaps in the multi-instance case, but svccfg should be able to figure that out.) > > I understand that you can do more with <instance>; my question is how > > the trivial case of <instance> is different. > > > > Also: > > > > What does > > <single_instance/> > > really do? It's supposed to tell the framework that only one instance of the service should be running at a time. Presumably the developer knows that all instances of the service will contend on some resource. (E.g., the interface binding is unconfigurable.) Unfortunately, it hasn't been implemented yet. David
