Fedora 11: moving to posix file capabilities?
Colin Walters
walters at verbum.org
Wed Oct 29 19:33:32 UTC 2008
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:
> Could you please suggest some links to your favorite writeups of those
> reasons?
The PolicyKit docs have some:
http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit/intro-define-problem.html
> Also, do you have data on what effect (if any) this trend has
> on steady-state system memory consumption?
That's a good question - I think with system activation by default
activated mechanisms will stay around, though obviously the kernel can
page them out. The clock applet mechanism
(http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gnome-panel/trunk/applets/clock/gnome-clock-applet-mechanism.c)
has its own 30-second timeout but it's kind of a hack. It's something
we should look at addressing - unfortunately just calling exit() after
30 seconds I believe creates race conditions, and to fix it correctly
will need special DBus support. There was a thread a while ago about
this on the DBus list IIRC.
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