Quoth Christine Tran on Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:24:29PM -0500: > Well, I hesitate to file RFEs for something that is easily done by some > other administrative means, and I'm not sure how much work would have to > be done by the SMF team to fix this. Especially when there's so many > other useful things that could be added to SMF. So, open call to the > SMF community: pile-on to this thread if you think SMF should be able > to kill all processes in a transient service if the start method fails. > Right now, there's no :kill for transient services. > > Just because I think it's useful doesn't mean most people find it useful. :)
I think your sentiment is dead-on, but I'd prefer to err on the side of filing change requests so that we can have records of why some things shouldn't be done and a comprehensive list of things which should be done. And don't worry about us dropping what we're doing now and rushing to fix your bug -- prioritization is part of software engineering. Most likely this would be fixed when someone is in fixing something else in svc.startd. Heck, the bug that John pointed out is marked oss-bite-size since it's sufficiently straightforward for a community member to work on. David
