Tony Nguyen writes: > 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
Once startd restarts svc.configd, services should be able to access their information. Services should be written to recognize SCF_ERROR_CONNECTION_BROKEN errors and retry if necessary. tom
