org.freedesktop.PowerManagement

[David Zeuthen]

On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 19:01 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> 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.

Did that on the HAL list already

 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2007-April/007882.html

since it's more on-topic there.

      David