Re: Porposing libgnomesu for 2.10

[Hongli Lai <h lai chello nl>]

Jeff Waugh wrote:
> What is your opinion on the way gksudo handles this?

gksu_context_sudo_run() (assuming you're talking about that) runs sudo 
and reads its entire output. Therebefore, it blocks until the child has 
exited. So gksudo doesn't provide a way to run a program asynchronously 
- you must wait until it has exited. I cannot abstract that in 
libgnomesu unless I remove all run-child-process-asynchronously functions.

And remember that the first time you run sudo, it will give you a 
message about "having received a lecture from the local sysadmin" and 
that kind of things? gksudo's code doesn't seem to handle that message. 
So unless you're not running sudo for the first time, gksudo will fail.

I really think there is no other way than to modify sudo itself. But 
even then, it'll take a while before that new sudo version is available 
on most systems. Or maybe I could just provide a config option...