In-kernel pfexec implementation. [PSARC/2009/377 FastTrack timeout 07/10/2009]

[Casper.Dik at sun.com]

>PSARC 2005/133 covers the introduction of per-user nscd.
>
>It is enabled by setting 'enable-per-user-lookup'.

Are you expecting that exec_attr and such will fail when they are
attempted by root?

>>> In the pre-review we discussed wither or not a TX configuration would 
>>> have one pfexecd per system (in the global zone) or one per zone.  This 
>>> would ensure that pfexecd "follows" what happens with nscd which can be 
>>> one in the global zone or one per zone.  I can't tell from the case 
>>> material what the decision was on that.
>> 
>> There's apparently one nscd per TX system and it makes sense there's
>> only one pfexecd in that schema.
>
>txzonemgr can be used to change that between one per system and one per 
>zone and the method script for svc:/system/name-service-cache sets it up.

We'll make sure that we'll test pfexecd with TX configured.

Casper