Hal activation

[Joe Shaw]

On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 14:37 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> Not sure if this has been discuss but every time dbus is restarted Hal
> dies.  Perhaps hal should use dbus activation whenever someone tries to
> access a hal service and it is not running. 

HAL needs to run as root (or a dedicated hal user eventually), and dbus
can only activate services as the dbus user, so I think activation is
out.  How do other dbussy things deal with this?

Joe

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