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From: 520047054719-0001@t-online.de (Oliver Neukum)
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: User-level Tasks in Hotplug Scripts?
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 22:02:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-101268740318755@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-101256895903801@msgid-missing>

On Saturday 02 February 2002 21:55, Jim Gettys wrote:
> OK, folks (both X and wm-spec-list folks, that is, that I've added to
> this thread):
>
> How do we want to solve this problem?
>
> We need a secure, interoperable way for configuration scripts running
> as root to pop up configuration GUI's on user's servers, and we need it
> soon (yesterday), as hot-plug is now a reality on Linux systems....

Is there anything wrong with the simplistic approach of having a demon
listening on a socket? If you want it generic, you have to use generic
means of communication.

	Regards
		Oliver

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-02-02 22:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-01 13:09 User-level Tasks in Hotplug Scripts? Ryan Shaw
2002-02-01 23:58 ` David Brownell
2002-02-02 20:55 ` Jim Gettys
2002-02-02 22:02 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2002-02-02 22:12 ` Jim Gettys
2002-02-02 22:52 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-02-02 23:02 ` David Brownell
2002-02-03  0:58 ` Scott Cuyle Fritzinger
2002-02-03  8:36 ` Greg KH
2002-02-04  6:02 ` Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov
2002-02-04 15:10 ` Jim Gettys
2002-02-04 19:28 ` Jim Carter
2002-02-05  3:32 ` David Brownell
2002-02-05 15:05 ` Ryan Shaw
2002-02-06 14:30 ` Marcus Harnisch
2002-02-06 14:54 ` Jim Gettys

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