Hi thread.

Sebastien, personally, I attempted to use that command several times
already with the intent to reset my networking subsystem state. Because
of some other bug, my system stops resolving hostnames at some point,
and redoing the connection is the easiest way to make network
operational again. And oftentimes, the simple CLI command is more
accessible than half a dosen clicks.

In short: I want to `restart networking` simply because I've restarted
each and every service out there, and it was always fine. At least, it
never ended up in any loss of my working data. As a bonus, `restart
<anyservice>` restarted *only* the service requested, not the whole
desktop session.

So, either the manual invokation of `/etc/init.d/networking restart`
should require an interactive confirmation (with appropriate warnings
about data loss), or even reject the command altogether. Or
alternatively, if the `networking` service doesn't represent the
networking subsystem itself, then it should be renamed. Or, if it does,
then the question shall be answered: what's the bloody business
networking subsystem has to do with DBus system bus?

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