But, with the bit of code that I am working with, this is not possible. I can put a sleep() or a loop few times to see if the service is enabled and then continue with the rest of the code.
-Narendra On 7/27/07, David Bustos <David.Bustos at sun.com> wrote: > > Quoth Liane Praza on Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 10:23:35PM -0700: > > "Narendra Kumar S.S" writes: > > > Now, I have written a code, which calls smf_enable_instance to enable > > > filesystem/local service. > > > Immediately after returning from this call, the next instruction, > tries to > > > access a file on one of the local filesystems. > > > So, are there chances that, the filesystem/local is not yet completely > > > enabled and because of that, the local filesystem is not yet mounted > and > > > hence this instruction might fail!? > > > > It is completely enabled. However, enabled doesn't mean the service > > is online. It means that we're trying to make it be online, but its > > dependencies may not be satisfied, it may have failed, or it may just > > not be online yet. > > Another way to do this would be to split the filesystem-accessing code > into a service which depends on filesystem/local. Then we won't execute > it until filesystem/local is online. This might be a lot of extra work, > though. > > > David > -- Warm Regards, Narendra Visit my blogs at: http://ssnarendrakumar.blogspot.com/ ___ ___ __ _ / __/ / __/ / | / / _\ \ _ \ \ / /| |/ / \___/ \___/ /_/ |__/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/smf-discuss/attachments/20070727/19d67c53/attachment.html>
