Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 15 Apr 2015 14:27:36 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1 |
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On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 02:09:24PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Wed, 15 Apr 2015, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > 'systemctl reboot' calls a bunch of other things to determine if you > > have local access to the machine, or permissions to reboot the machine > > (i.e. CAP_SYS_BOOT), and other things that polkit might allow you to do, > > and then, it decides to reboot or not. That happens today, right? I > > don't understand the argument here. > > And what exactly is the argument that this is the way it should be > implemnted?
I can't answer that, discuss it with the developers of that userspace code please.
> Why can't it just rely on the kernel to provide final answer to "to reboot > or not to reboot, that is the question"?
Usually you want to do a few things before telling the kernel to reboot, like unmount all filesystems and the like :)
Anyway, we are getting away from the code at hand, please, let's discuss that.
greg k-h
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