2008/152 dlmgmtd uid and door file location

[Bart Smaalders]

Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
>> That is what we current have, except that the door file is currently in /etc 
>> (/etc/.dlmgmt_door) instead of /etc/dladm, but it caused flashinstall problem described in 
>> this case.
>>
> 
> Why was it made into a hidden file?  Why not in /var/run?
> 
> Casper
> 

According to the original mail:


 >      Note that although the /var/run directory seems a better place to
 >      hold door files, it is mounted much later in boot by the
 >      filesystem/minimal service, therefore cannot be used in this case.


It seems to me that we're working around a lot of problems here in
other areas....

- Bart

-- 
Bart Smaalders			Solaris Kernel Performance
barts at cyber.eng.sun.com		http://blogs.sun.com/barts
"You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird."