On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 08:07:49AM +0200, Mario Truyens wrote:
> You could also take the opposite approach: why not extend SMF with another
> property, where you can specify that a service is 'gone' when the parent
> process in the contract is gone, and not the full contract? I guess that
> there are many other daemons around that work in the same way as an Oracle
> listener...
You've just described a "child" service, for which a property already
exists. From svc.startd(1M):
startd/duration
The duration property defines the service's model. It
can be set to transient, child also known as "wait"
model services, or contract (the default).
The service is considered running as soon as the start method (which
is the parent process in the contract) begins. When it exits, the
service is considered to have terminated and is restarted. The
remainder of the contract is left alone.
Dave
