From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: 520047054719-0001@t-online.de (Oliver Neukum) Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 22:52:32 +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 > > 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. > > You don't want to pass out permission to access your X server to anyone > who happens to ask for it (if you do, you've compromized everything, > or go down into compartmentalized workstation hell, someplace where we > went 10 years ago and found fundamentally painful). > So the issue is fundamentally one of authenticating > the configuration GUI's process to the X server to allow connection. There's no reason the listening demon has to be part of X, or is there ? An interrested user would start a task listening upon login. 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