[LAU] [LAD] [Jack-Devel] jackd/jackdbus : D-Bus or not D-Bus...

Patrick Shirkey pshirkey at boosthardware.com
Tue May 19 15:02:59 EDT 2009


drew Roberts wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 May 2009 09:48:11 Fons Adriaensen wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 08:40:58PM +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>>     
>>> Krzysztof Foltman wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Ideally, jackdbus shouldn't even allow jackd binary to
>>>> exist in $PATH (and vice versa), to prevent the exact
>>>> kind of situation that Fons is experiencing.
>>>>         
>> Programs that do that kind of things have a name
>> here: malware. I'm the boss on my system, and I
>> will decide what goes into $PATH. Just as I decide
>> which filesystems get mounted and where, and how
>> permissions are set.
>>     
>
> Fons, I think some people have misunderstood some things you have said in this 
> thread. In this case I think you misunderstood Patrick. (Or I did - not a bad 
> possibility.)
>
> I think what he was saying was that jackdbus would check for jackd in $PATH 
> and complain bitterly / refuse to sintall / whatever. Not that it would try 
> and control what $PATH was set to. Or perhaps you got that and I 
> misunderstood your objection.
>   


Hi Drew,

If you are referring to me, then I would like to remove myself from the 
dbus issue. I am currently concerned about PA usage for non technical 
users and/or "Ralf Maldorf's" attitude towards Linux Audio as a platform.



Cheers.

--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd.







> If there is proper understanding and objections / differences still remain, 
> that is one thing. So often in life we are disagreeing with what we think 
> people mean when if fact we may agree with what they actually mean.
>   
>> Ciao.
>>     
>
> all the best,
>
> drew
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