D-Bus service files dynamics

[Colin Walters]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Holger Berndt <berndth at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi D-Bus people,
>
> I was wondering when D-Bus .service files are parsed, and how they are
> cached. I've been told that those .service files are rather static,
> and are not suitable for dynamic configuration changes.
>
> If a user changes his defaults by editing the .service files in his
> home directory, when will those changes take effect? I wasn't really
> able to figure that easily out by testing, but it seemed to be that it
> won't take effect immediately.

Hi, as far as I can tell from a brief look at the code we don't try to
monitor on the service directories, so right now you should "kill
-HUP" the daemon.  This is probably a bug, or at least something that
vendors will need to deal with in package %post scripts and the
equivalent.