Messages in this thread | | | From | Shawn Starr <> | Subject | Re: Modern 2.6 kernels - Notification for changing hostname from proc/sys/kernel/hostname ? | Date | Mon, 19 May 2008 16:05:31 -0400 |
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On Monday 19 May 2008 04:45:35 pm Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 01:16:12PM -0400, Shawn Starr wrote: > > I was looking at utsname_sysctl.c (if this is the right place) and > > noticed there doesn't seem to be any notification via the connector bus > > to tell userspace the hostname has changed? Is this correct? > > Yes. No notifications. > > > if so, would not not make sense to add such event triggers so that things > > like KDE would not have to poll to determine if the hostname changes and > > instead had D-BUS tell userspace the hostname changed? > > Why does it want to know if and when hostname changes? > Well, It's for keeping track of the X session, if the hostname changes things go bad.
> > Perhaps this could be applied to other values (where applicable) > > in /proc/sys/kernel? > > Probably, what other stuff desktop crowd wants?
No idea on the other values, but maybe others can jump in on this discussion?
> > > Or is this all going to go into sysfs eventually (where some of this > > really might belong) > > Hopefully, not. There is already uname(2), sysctls -- proc and binary,
Hopefully this can all be cleaned up, we really should have one unified place for kernel tweaking/settings either /proc or /sys.
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