On 16/10/12 09:23, Ted Gould wrote: > On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 21:19 +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: >> Le 15/10/2012 21:10, Ted Gould a écrit : >>> I don't believe that >>> happened in the Q cycle, do we think that we could get upstart >> James pinged me recently because foundation is planning work for next >> cycle and wanted to know what's the most important on the list for >> desktop. I said it would be "user session jobs", do other still agree >> with that? If you have other request I think there is still time at UDS >> to discuss those > I still don't understand why we want a single upstart instance and not > one system one and one per session. I think that having a single > instance is what makes user jobs difficult as you have to handle all the > states of things like encrypted file systems, where if we started the > upstart process later, PAM/lightdm would do it for us. There are other > benefits too, but at least if I can move that out of the way I can get > other features :-) > I agree there, I don't think it's reliably possible to have a root daemon launch things for a user. Since PAM is so flexible it could have set anything in the root session process that is required for application to run.
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