Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 01:47:15PM -0700, Tom Whitten wrote: > >> I don't see any reason why you couldn't do what you are proposing. If you >> store the date/time of the first service start as a volatile property, it >> automatically get removed on reboot. This would make it easy to tell if >> the service is starting for the first time. >> >> Without knowing more about your state information, I don't know whether or >> not volatile properties are appropriate for it. >> > > I think they would be. If not then we can always use the system > repository. > > What happens if svc.configd blows up and loses the running repository? > > The repository is persistent and svc.configd handles read/write access to it. In the case svc.configd died, the repository would still be around though services wouldn't be able to access their information.
-tony
