On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 02:08:58PM -0700, David Powell wrote: > 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.
I had the impression that this particular service involved more than one process that should be in the running service's process contract, but spawned children that also shouldn't be in the same contract. If that's the case then this won't do. Or am I missing something. Nico --
