On 18/11/15 11:23, Simon McVittie wrote: >> We can re-exec init, but not dbus? > > Yes. Handing off IPC connections across a re-exec is a feature of > significant complexity, which will break the system if done wrong; it > would require support for serializing and deserializing dbus-daemon's > entire state (name ownership, connection credentials, the buffer of > partially-read messages on each connection, etc.) in a way that is > compatible across versions. > > dbus-daemon has never had this feature, and will continue to not have > this feature until/unless someone implements it.
True, but dbus in the past was mostly local to an user session. dbus now is critical for most system machinery. It deserves, actually no, it *needs* such a feature. >> Somehow I have a big problem with that. > > If you want to propose an implementation, I'd be happy to review a patch > series upstream (but I suspect it isn't actually feasible). I understand all you said and I agree on the complexity, but I still see it as a big issue for a component that sits side-by-side with init. Somehow it didn't click for me before that message. I realize debian has nothing to do with this, but still, as long as you don't close the bug, I'm fine with wontfix... _______________________________________________ Pkg-utopia-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-utopia-maintainers
