Code review comment for lp:~stgraber/upstart/upstart-events-bridge

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 02:55:24PM -0000, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> This introduces a new upstart-event-bridge, started once dbus is start in
> the user session and which then relays events from the system upstart to the
> session upstart.

> Events are all prefixed with ":sys:" and a special even also exists for when
> the system upstart is restarted (":sys:restarted").

> Testing was only done with the current upstart listening to the session bus,
> but it should still work fine once we have the full user session support
> implemented.

What's the rationale for implementing this over the user dbus, instead of
having the user session's init process connecting to upstart directly? dbus
looks like needless indirection here to me.

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