On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 18:42 +0200, Davide Bolcioni wrote:>>
My guess is that I should look at either HAL or D-BUS, but I would like to hear about the pros and cons of each solution: as far as I know, HAL feeds D-BUS but the latter is mainly intended for desktop applications, so in my use case might not even be there.
D-BUS is for use from (right above) the kernel up to the Desktop. You can use it for system services also. It is why we have a system bus in the first place.
Well, the D-BUS pages at freedesktop.org seem a bit thin on documentation. I could start listening on the system bus FIFO, but how am I supposed to know what to listen for ?
I tried (as root) on a Fedora Core 3
dbus-monitor --system
but inserting a blank CD resulted in no activity (is this what is supposed to happen ?), while non-blank media results in significant activity. I guess I could look at said activity and operate accordingly, but I was wondering if there was some kind of specification I could code against that would not change under my feet in the next release.
Thank you for your consideration Davide Bolcioni -- There is no place like /home.
