Jordan Brown (Sun) wrote: > Glenn Faden wrote: >> I thought I answered that. The dbus-daemon is using a UNIX domain >> rendezvous file in /tmp in the global zone. The non-global zones have >> their own instances of /tmp, so the rendezvous file does not exist in >> their namespace. Even if it did, there would be other problems >> because the devices that get reported to HAL by the dbus-daemon don't >> exist in the non-global zones. HAL isn't zone-aware. > > I understood that. What I didn't understand was why there wasn't a > completely separate instance of the dbus-daemon running in each zone, > with its own rendezvous file for communicating with clients in that > zone. Why would you expect there to be cross-zone communication here? Some kind of zone-awareness needs to be integrated into HAL and/or dbus to deliver notification events (like hot plugging) to appropriate consumers. I don't have a proposal at this point.
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