Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 May 2008 00:45:35 +0400 | From | Alexey Dobriyan <> | Subject | Re: Modern 2.6 kernels - Notification for changing hostname from proc/sys/kernel/hostname ? |
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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?
> Perhaps this could be applied to other values (where applicable) > in /proc/sys/kernel?
Probably, what other stuff desktop crowd wants?
> 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,
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