From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: 520047054719-0001@t-online.de (Oliver Neukum) Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 22:02:11 +0000 Subject: Re: User-level Tasks in Hotplug Scripts? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel