>On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 04:03:10PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: >> I can neither confirm nor deny your assertions ;) With that said, I was >> just trying to point out that many of the reasons that some people might >> have for needing this sort of scripting are no longer applicable. > >Indeed. > >> Specifically, when it comes to managing which *Solaris* software is >> installed, there should be no need for scripting. > >Well, _package scripting_ is dead with IPS. But often self-assmebling >software will use IPS SMF actions where the start method will execute... >a _script_.
Well, clearly it wouldn't be as bad as "postrun" which we already have. It just becomes a little bit worse (at one point, I timed postrun and the pidcounter wrapped twice, 60,000 forks were needed) Casper
