> If you wanted to achieve something more globally useful for SMF that > had better namespace isolation and interface stability, the thing to do would > be to propose a new SMF variable, let's say $SMF_TMPDIR, that was handed > from SMF to a client service as some private tmpfs directory in which > the service can do whatever it likes, thereby isolating it from any other > processes that might create things of a similar name. Then have SMF > put this directory in etc/svc/volatile named <fmri>.dir just as it does > today for logs. This would actually achieve better isolation of the > namespace, and would also give us the flexibility to move the root of this > directory around to various locations in the future.
Yeah, that would be pretty nice -- someday :-) -- meem
