On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 19:54 +0000, Nate Nielsen wrote: > Richard Hughes wrote: > > Latest version for review: > > > > http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/temp/power-management-spec-0.2.html > > Perhaps this is out of the scope of org.freedesktop.PowerManagement, but > I'm wondering if the following has been accounted for: > > gnome-keyring (and most likely kwallet) needs a way of flushing certain > data from memory before Hibernation. Putting certain data (passwords, > etc...) on a disk would compromise the security of a system.
Sure, g-p-m has been doing this for a few months, although users didn't seem to like the feature so it's turned off by default [1]. > Is there a way to perform actions before hibernation by listening to a > DBus interface? Signals may not work in this case, because of race > conditions. It would seem that a DBus signal could be delivered, the > hibernate action take place, all before the signal handler can take > appropriate action. Yes, I considered a registration interface for other stuff like network-manager-applet and stuff like GAIM, but I'm waiting to see what Dan is going to come up with XMSP. > Am I completely barking up the wrong tree? Do I need to look elsewhere > for such notifications? No, you are barking at the right tree in my opinion. ;-) Richard [1] http://hughsient.livejournal.com/19481.html _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
