Re: Networkmanager service is shutdown too early

[seth vidal <skvidal fedoraproject org>]

On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 15:33 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Simo Sorce <ssorce redhat com> wrote:
>         
>         
>         I am very glad the debian guys got "all cranky" on this issue,
>         Temrinating network connections just  because a component need
>         to
>         resytart is plain silly.
> 
> DBus is not the same as any other random software because it is
> explicitly designed to provide reliable communication *between*
> components, much like the kernel.  If you restart it at random times
> that reliability guarantee is destroyed.
> 
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2005-March/thread.html#00027 
> 

Simo's point still holds though. What you've described above is a better
reason to have not designed nm around dbus not a reason why we should be
okay with our network services going away when we restart dbus.

-sv