[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] use ConsoleKit instead of HAL for

[Paul Fox]

bernie wrote:
 > On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 01:19 -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
 > > P.S. - I might feel differently if I knew how to make D-Bus and ConsoleKit work
 > > sanely with chroots, which I care about deeply for purposes of testing. 
 > 
 > What's the problem? I do:
 > 
 >   mount --bind /var/run/dbus "$ROOT/var/run/dbus"
 > 
 > 
 > > I know how to make the /sbin/shutdown approach work sanely with chroots.
 > 
 > You're probably still using an old Linux distro. The /sbin/shutdown
 > implementation that comes from upstart 0.6 talks to init over dbus.
 > 
 > Sorry to deliver such bad news, but dbus seems to be taking over the
 > platform. As bad as it may seem, now at least we've got a unified IPC
 > system with a consistent security model across many different daemons.

unified, perhaps, except that access from shell (last i looked)
was fairly inadequate.

paul
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