lianep at eng.sun.com wrote: > (I'm still catching up on mail, so forgive me if there was already a > response.) > > Dan Groves writes: > >> We weren't planning to put the temporary links in SMF. From my reading >> of the SMF materials, it looked like having temporary property groups >> was follow on work and not available now (If I'm wrong, please correct >> me). > > I'm correcting you. :) > > scf_*_add_pg() calls take a SCF_PG_FLAG_NONPERSISTENT flag. > Nonpersistent property groups are removed during reboot. (They're > actually stored in a tmpfs filesystem, so no active removal is > necessary. But, that's an implementation detail.) > > We use them extensively in implementation of SMF's status and > internal communication. > > liane
Thanks Liane! That might make recovery from a linkmgmtd crash or restart easier for us. thanks, Dan
