Re: [systemd-devel] from dbus , how do i find if app went down

2015-07-08 Thread Pradeepa Kumar
I am subscribing to PropertiesChanged signal and caching service and its substate in client side. But i noticed that when service is started , i dont get PropertiesChanged signal. how can i update my local client side cache in this case ? my goal is to let my upper layer know when app goes down (r

Re: [systemd-devel] from dbus , how do i find if app went down

2015-07-05 Thread Pradeepa Kumar
Caching the unit's statet is one solution. But is there any alternative ? This seems such a basic use case , surprising why there is no easier API for this ? On research, I see that some people use JobRemoved signal and on getting that signal and if it 'done' they check the ActiveState to figure ou

Re: [systemd-devel] from dbus , how do i find if app went down

2015-07-03 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 03.07.15 16:46, Pradeepa Kumar (cdprade...@gmail.com) wrote: > When you say 'Check the "state" instead ' > Did you mean ActiveState ? Yes! Sorry for the confusion! Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat ___ systemd-devel mailing list systemd

Re: [systemd-devel] from dbus , how do i find if app went down

2015-07-03 Thread Pradeepa Kumar
When you say 'Check the "state" instead ' Did you mean ActiveState ? On Jul 3, 2015 3:39 PM, "Lennart Poettering" wrote: > On Fri, 03.07.15 15:29, Pradeepa Kumar (cdprade...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > I am writing lib which will monitor apps and notify/callback higher level > > if apps went down. >

Re: [systemd-devel] from dbus , how do i find if app went down

2015-07-03 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 03.07.15 15:29, Pradeepa Kumar (cdprade...@gmail.com) wrote: > I am writing lib which will monitor apps and notify/callback higher level > if apps went down. > How can I achieve this? > I tried doing this using propertieschanged signal and reading > substate We reserve the liberty to in

[systemd-devel] from dbus , how do i find if app went down

2015-07-03 Thread Pradeepa Kumar
I am writing lib which will monitor apps and notify/callback higher level if apps went down. How can I achieve this? I tried doing this using propertieschanged signal and reading substate property and that msg does not have old value and new value in the msg. I noticed that when app go down i get