>> Would the daemon always run or does this require a new kernel mechanism
>> to autostart daemons?
>
>Why wouldn't SMF/contracts handle that ?
You're not honestly proposing to run a daemon for something
that basically never happens?
>> How do you propose the daemon handles:
>>
>> rename("t.contents", "contents"):
>>
>> (In case someone runs old packaging tools)
>
>Why would running old pkg commands on a newer release be supported ?
You can never know what is going to happen or what circumstances
will arise in certain environments (it is not always the system itself
which is used to maintain the database)
I'm not yet convinced that we need to get rid of the contents file
to get the performance we are after; the last prototype we did broke
badly for several reasons (excessive memory use, broken backward
compatibility).
Casper
