On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 22:04 +0100, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > Network Manager 0.6.6 (in eg Ubuntu 8.04) monitors the > /etc/network/interfaces for changes and acts upon them as soon as the > file is modified. > > This can be seen as a good feature in certain ways, but had two > significant drawbacks I find: > > - in Linux/unix philosiphy (thus expected usage), editing > configuration files can be safely done (multiple times) until some > subsystem is restarted/notified > > - if you're logged in, and (eg) /home is NFS-mounted, you get a > consequent system hang > > Is there a strong case for this behaviour, or something else that > depends on this?
People seem to have quite different opinions about this sort of behavior. On the other side, SIGHUP isn't the right solution because it's only _one_ signal. In NM we could potentially monitor a few different things, and we don't want to have to re-read the VPN service .name files just because somebody sent a SIGHUP becuase they changed /etc/network/interfaces. I don't have a particular feeling either way, but I'd like to hear other people's thoughts on the subject too. dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
