[systemd-devel] [networkd] dbus interface?

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 03:00:16PM +0200, Yuri D'Elia wrote:
> On Mon, May 16 2016, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> >> Just as a curiosity though, is there some logic in the link numbers
> >> given? All my links are _3[123]. Since I just need to emit some
> >> notifications for the time being, knowing that _XY have the same
> >> sequence as what is listed by networkctl would already be something.
> >
> > That's actually the interface index formatted as integer
> > string. However, since D-Bus does not allow object path components to
> > start with a number it it is escaped with an underscored followed by
> > the ASCII code of the character... Hence "3" becomes "_33", because
> > 0x33 is the ASCII code for the character "3"...
> 
> That's enough for what I needed... some simple notifications of network
> state changes. I was tired or running networkctl manually.
> 
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wavexx/networkd-notify/master/networkd-notify
> 
> It's cobbled together with duct-tape, but at least it's not polling.
> Hopefully it's going to improve later on with a proper API.

Nice.

Zbyszek