On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 10:16 -0500, Robert Love wrote: > On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 12:16 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > > > There have been quite a few discussions about this sort of thing, and > > the general conclusion has been "don't do that"... > > That was the consensus of some, awhile back, but I do not think anyone > is singing that song anymore. Many DBUS-using apps are able to survive > a system bus restart. Certainly, at a minimum, applications should be > reworked to not crash. > > HAL has a very similar approach to Timo's patch, which makes good > precedent. > > > 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. > > I think we can separate "should never restart the system bus" from "foo > should be able to survive a system bus restart." > > The former is good policy, the latter is good programming. We can have > both.
Fine, feel free to commit. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list