where is dbus 1.2 ?

[Frederic Crozat]

Le jeudi 29 novembre 2007 à 12:26 -0500, David Zeuthen a écrit :
> On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 18:11 +0100, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> > Le jeudi 29 novembre 2007 à 11:59 -0500, David Zeuthen a écrit :
> > > On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 23:56 -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > > > Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > > > > I wonder if it is not time to get 1.2 out the door. What is holding it up ?
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Nothing I know of. 
> > > 
> > > Before I forget, two bugs I'm aware of that should be easy to fix (no
> > > patches yet, sorry)
> > > 
> > >  o  inotify support for /etc/dbus/system.d appears to be broken; need
> > >     to manually send SIGHUP to the system bus
> > >     (lots of PackageKit users run into this)
> > 
> > Hmm, you mean, it doesn't exist at all, right ? There is currently only
> > dnotify backend.
> > 
> > I've posted a patch for inotify backend one year ago on mailing list and
> > I've pinged again two weeks ago. It is waiting in bugzilla now :
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13268
> 
> I assumed it used inotify (on Linux) already; I think at least it's
> supposed to pick up the changes using whatever mechanism the OS / kernel
> provides. Regardless of the mechanism, the fact remains that it doesn't
> work (on Linux, specifically Fedora and also Foresight I think, at
> least). I also remember this working in 1.0.

There is another bug in the dnotify backend (present in 1.0) which
doesn't detect NEW file creation :
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13269

with a nice patch attached..

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat at mandriva.com>
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