On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 10:04:11PM +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?
This is an ubuntu specific patch. The reason for this patch is that we have other desktop components that change that file. However, I can see your point. Maybe implementing a dbus "reconfigure" instead of auto reconfiguring when config files change would be a good alternative? - Alexander _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
