Activation of services on system bus

[Sean Kelley]

On 4/28/07, Matt Hoosier <matt.hoosier at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/28/07, Havoc Pennington <hp at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Matt Hoosier wrote:
> > > My installation is a completely vanilla D-Bus 1.0.1. I'm comfortable
> > > with the resulting service process running as root, so I'm not worried
> > > about whether the system-bus-activation-using-helper-process issue was
> > > ever ironed out.
> >
> > You do need to be worried about that though ;-) because the bus does not
> > run as root, it runs as a special user with no privileges.
> >
> > So basically system bus activation is not implemented and won't work.
> >
> > Havoc
> >
> >
>
> Hmm, thanks Havoc. I'm almost certain that I heard the Nokia folks are
> using some manner of auto-activated services that run on the system
> bus (GConf, for example) for their n770/800 products. Does anybody
> know whether some special hacks were applied to make that happen?
>
> --Matt

Matt,

You should  probably best ask on the Maemo-Devel list

Sean