From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Jansen Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 00:38:26 +0000 Subject: Re: xhotplugd -- project idea 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 15 June 2002 02:22, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: > That is why my proposal is to use an on-disk file for communications. > Don't worry - the disk buffering is effective enough to make the impact > of using the disk storage neglectible. I would rather worry that it is more difficult to be notified about events (you would need to mess with FAM, dnotify or something like this). > Why not leave this daemon to be implemented differently by each desktop > environment? Because of the need to standardize Linux. Which functionality could a daemon provide beside X11 configuration (that could be done inside X11 as well)? > The desktop environments might compete on whoever offers the most > user-friendly way to configure our daemon, but the daemon would still be the > same I would prefer a library instead of another daemon running in background. Then KDE could embed it as a kded module that uses standard C calls for communication instead of a stand-alone process which communicates using another RPC protocol. It would be important that the library can be integrated into event loops though. bye... _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ 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