[PATCH] Hal privilige seperation

[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 20:49 +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 10:30:39AM -0800, Artem Kachitchkine wrote:
> > Artem Kachitchkine wrote:
> > >
> > >If hald process suddenly terminates without calling KillAll(), will 
> > >hald-runner terminate too?
> > 
> > OK, I see now that KillAll() only kills children, not hald-runner 
> > itself. So the question becomes: how and when is hald-runner terminated?
> 
> the runner does the following to setup it's dbus connection:
>   dbus_connection_setup_with_g_main(c, NULL);
>   dbus_connection_set_exit_on_disconnect(c, TRUE);

So the runner is directly connecting to HAL and not going through the
bus?

If it is going through the bus this will not work and you should listen
for the NameOwnerChanged signal on the org.freedesktop.Hal name.

-- 
John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>