On 12/01/08 19:28, Brock Pytlik wrote:
> Line 116 and 118: Are these adding callbacks so that you get 
> notifications when the user changes the preference settings?

Yes.
>
> If the user changes the refresh period, to be shorter than the time 
> left to the next check under the previous policy, shouldn't the 
> timeout be changed or another call added to the idle list with a 
> shorter timeout? For example, if I set the refresh period to a day, 
> wait till one minute after the refresh is happened (so the next 
> refresh is set for 24 hours) then change the refresh period to be 
> every hour, I shouldn't have to wait 24 hours before the hourly 
> refresh period takes effect.
>
>
This cannot happen. The shortest refresh period is 1 day and the maximum 
that we wait for is 1 day; see line 352.

> Regarding your comment about terminating the update manager notifier, 
> does that mean if:
> a) UMN notices an update and pops up the icon
> b) I click on the icon to see what updates are available
> c) I decide I don't want any of those updates at this moment and I 
> cancel UM, or quit it
>
> then I no longer get notifications of updates until I ... 
> reboot/relogin/? If so, that seems like broken behavior. I can't tell 
> whether your comment means "we know this is an issue but we're not 
> fixing it in this change set" or "we don't agree this is a problem."
>
The behavior is as you describe.

The reason that this is not addressed is that we do not have a consensus 
that this is broken behavior.

Padraig
> Thanks,
> Brock
>
>
> Padraig O'Briain wrote:
>> The webrev, http://cr.opensolaris.org/~padraig/ips-5188-v2/ fixes the 
>> following bugs:
>>
>> 5174 updatemanagernotifier should be nice(2)
>> 5188 Tidy up required  in updatemanagernotifier
>> 5198 updatemanagernotifier should re-read config files
>>
>> Note that we still terminate updatemanagernotifier after the user has 
>> clicked on the icon.
>>
>> Padraig
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