Hi, On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 12:16 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> Discussion here is required... haven't we gone over this before? > > DBUS shouldn't ever be restarted from underneath NetworkManager. DBUS > shouldn't be restarted when it is updated, unless you restart your > system. If the bus dies, that's a bug. Security updates. If you're required to upgrade D-BUS because of an exploit. Once the system bus is restarted, NM will die. Bad thing: system looses network connection. You can still argue that post-install of RPMs simply should not restart the service but this will leave your system vulnerable until you reboot. > There have been quite a few discussions about this sort of thing, and > the general conclusion has been "don't do that"... Am I missing something? HAL, for example, has a similar approach. > I'm curious what prompted this patch? Just because we can do it doesn't > necessarily mean we should. See above. > Dan Timo > PS - I'm not 100% against it, but wanted to figure this out in the > context of previous DBUS restart discussions on other lists, like HAL > for example. _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list