2008/152 dlmgmtd uid and door file location

[Casper.Dik at sun.com]

>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....

I guess that in hindsight /var/run was not such a cool location after all;
/var/run needs to be created *after* /var is mounted and that might be
fairly late.

Casper