configuration files
Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Fri Dec 12 13:47:49 PST 2003
Right now the RCNG states recorded in the varsym list are:
disabled subsystem is not enabled
running subsystem was configured/is-running/is-not-relevant
failed subsystem could not be configured
We could add a few more states:
configured subsystem is configured but requires no daemon.
irrelevant subsystem is not relevant to the current
system config (present so dependancies on
this subsystem can be ignored). e.g.
'diskless' and 'dhclient' and a few other
subsystems when they are not otherwise
required.
running[.ipcinfo] subsystem is 'running' via one or more
daemons and, if ipcinfo is present, the
daemon is being actively 'maintained' by
a monitoring process which adheres to a
formal API (via a unix domain socket or
something like that), or this could just
be a PID which supports HUP-reloads and
INTR stops.
-Matt
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