Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > Okay, now you're asking me to consider a system-wide daemon > independent of systemd. It has to run with root privileges so it has > access to everyone's repositories, which means that people have to > trust it beyond doubt. What does it do? It has a generic API to > watch filesystem paths and report events over an IP socket. Do you > think that this will only be useful to git? Every other version > control system (and presumably many other pieces of software) will > want to use it. One huge downside I see of making this part of > systemd is Ubuntu. They've decided not to use systemd for some > unfathomable reason. After some thought, I've decided that extending systemd is not the way to go. And the dbus API is really an overkill. Writing a simple system-wide daemon shouldn't be a challenge; the hard part is getting git to use it properly. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html