Sean Wilcox wrote:
> Antonello Cruz wrote:
>> The case looks good.
>>
>> I have 2 questions:
>> 1 - When would someone want to import manifests with SVCCFG_CHECKHASH 
>> unset? what is the purpose of the option?
>> BTW, shouldn't this new (?) env variable be in the interface table?
>> There is no mention of SVCCFG_CHECKHASH in svccfg(1M). Is that 
>> intentional? Is this a private interface?
> SVCCFG_CHECKHASH is not new.  It's been used for quite a while now to 
> create a hash entry in the smf/manifest repository table.  When this 
> variable is set, the hash will be checked to determine if the manifest 
> has changed and if not then do not import the manifest file.  This 
> provides a way to improve large sets of manifest import work to be 
> imported quickly when not all manifests in the set have changed.  The 
> variable is a private interface, and we have not changed it's use from 
> the initial integration, we are just continuing to take advantage of it.
Right... I grepped the wrong dir  usr/src/cmd/svc/svccfg instead of 
usr/src/cmd/svc/common
sorry for the noise.

Thanks,

Antonello

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