On 1/19/06, Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:37:06PM +0530, Nikhil wrote: > > On 1/18/06, Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 12:25:53PM +0530, Nikhil wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > > > > > Is it possible that if my configuration file is changed and without > > > > restarting my service with svcs, can svc.startd take care of hupping > the > > > > application itself ? > > > > > > SMF file dependencies are not as fully functional as you would expect. > > > > > > Is it already thought of ? If so, then when the changes are going to > > propagate into Actual SMF stuff ? > > I don't know what the plan is for file dependencies, but you can imagine > that fully functional file dependencies will require a filesystem event > facility, and one, by the way, that will work across NFS (for diskless > boot). In other words, I wouldn't expect this anytime soon. > > More importantly though, file dependencies are a poor interface for your > needs. This is because an event message like "/etc/foo.conf changed" > isn't necessarily atomic w.r.t. whatever is actually changing > /etc/foo.conf. That is, just because /etc/foo.conf has changed doesn't > mean it is done changing. > > So you should consider the possibility that file dependencies really > aren't something you want. > > Nico > -- >
Thanks for the clarification Nico.. I got it .. :) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/smf-discuss/attachments/20060119/7ed846a0/attachment.html>
