org.freedesktop.PowerManagement

[Richard Hughes]

On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 17:21 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> 
> (Of course, we haven't defined how locking on org.freedesktop.Hal.
> Device.SystemPowerManagement will work just yet.. but I took it into
> account with the new HAL locking API that went into HEAD earlier this
> week. This is needed not only for this.. but also to make multiple
> session-based PM daemons work for both fast-user-switching and
> multi-seat.) 

So a package updater would get a lock on the interface, which would mean
any subsequent accesses get a PermissionDenied error, which the session
would covey to the user.

Could you please elaborate on how you want the HAL locking used? Thanks.

Richard.