hald-addon-acpi cannot survive acpid restart

[Richard Hughes]

On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 06:16 -0400, Ryan Lortie wrote:
> This is a patch to make it so that if acpid is restarted then the hald
> acpi 'addon' will reconnect to it once it comes back rather then exiting
> completely.

Sounds like a plan.

> Basically, if a dropped connection was detected before, the addon would
> exit().  Now I've added another while(1) around the body of the program
> and changed some other things around very slightly.

Hmm. The code seems a bit wild to me...

> This patch has been in Ubuntu for the past few days and nobody is
> screaming about it so I guess it probably works fairly OK.
> 
> Ubuntu bug is here -- http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14852
> 
> The patch attached to the bug report is difference since I made it for
> Breezy's HAL (which has sort of taken on a life of its own).  The patch
> against CVS HEAD is attached to this email.

What about a similar idea (but with less tabbing :-) attached.... (no
comments or sensible function names yet)

This is completely untested btw, as I've removed acpid.

Does this do the same stuff another (slightly prettier) way?

Richard.
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