Re: nm-system-settings problem

[Gene Czarcinski <gene czarc net>]

On Tuesday 13 May 2008 15:59:39 Dan Williams wrote:
> You actually do want to match the watch descriptor to the one that we're
> saving; the patch (while it works) is essentially a big club when we
> need to be a bit more elegant.  The problem is that the watch
> descriptors increase as you add new watches, and therefore if I added a
> watch to /var/foo/bar that would now trigger the check there, which is
> wrong.  But you're on the right path :)

I never claimed my patch was anything but a big club! ... but it did work.

Part of my problem was that I could understand what was happening in 
stuff_changed() and in sc_plugin_inotify_init() but the other functions and 
how they worked/interacted was not all that clear.

>
> I've fixed this "correctly" upstream.  Turns out that GIO in glib
> doesn't handle hardlinks either.  But I've worked around that by doing
> parallel watches on ifcfg files themselves (instead of the
> network-scripts directory) to catch the hardlink case.  I'll build a new
> testing version of NM presently.

When you have something ready to test, give a shout and I will give it a try.

-- 
Gene