[patch] automatically reload config

[Colin Walters]

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 17:09 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> here is a patch for automatically reloading the configuration (similar
> to sending the HUP signal to the message bus process) whenever files are
> added or removed the the included policy configuration file directories
> (for the system bus this is typically /etc/dbus-1/system.d). This should
> easy deployment of (system-wide) D-BUS services as distros don't need to
> do (distro-specific) 'kill -HUP `cat /var/run/messagebus.pid`' in e.g.
> %post of a RPM.

Perhaps an alternative is a new bus method, like
org.freedesktop.DBus.Bus.ReloadConfig?  Then the %post just needs
dbus-send --system ...

The implementation should probably check the remote end has uid 0 at
least.
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