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[Michael Biebl]

2008/8/11 Havoc Pennington <hp at pobox.com>:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:16 AM, smog zer <smogzer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Just so that i can understand you better, could you give examples of
>> those "life support" services that use libdbus and can't whitstand a
>> daemon restart ?
>
> All of them, afaik. HAL, networkmanager, etc. on system bus; and
> everything in the user session.

That's not correct afaik. E.g networkmanager 0.6 has logic to
reconnect to the system bus (and it works ok). I know other services,
like powersaved, which also can cope with a system dbus restart just
fine.

I also know, that Sjoerd fixed a couple of GNOME programs, so they can
cope with a session bus going away (e.g. gnome-keyring). And from my
day-to-day usage I think that programs like gnome-power-manager work
just fine after dbus restarts. Actually most programs do, only
nautilus/gnome-vfs is an unfortunate exception.

So, it's very well possible, it just requires additional work.

Cheers,
Michael


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