Re: Restarting desktop session services on RPM upgrade?

[John Dennis <jdennis redhat com>]

On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 11:58 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 11:44:55AM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > The Mugshot client daemon does this itself by installing a file called 
> > "version" with the package version, and if said file changes it restarts 
> > itself.
> 
> init stats its own binary and librarie (or used to)

But that exposes you to a race condition as you don't know when all the
files have been upgraded and it requires inefficient periodic polling.
-- 
John Dennis <jdennis redhat com>