powerd-dbus network extension

[Daniel Drake]

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
>  - is there anything special about the network inhibit?  i wonder if
>    we should future-proof this by making it a generic
>    "inhibit-suspend"/"allow-suspend" message?  it might have other
>    uses.  but in that case, the requests have to nest correctly.  so
>    maybe something like:
>
>        inhibit-suspend)
>            : $(( no_suspend++ ))
>            ;;
>
>        allow-suspend)
>            : $(( no_suspend = (no_suspend > 0) ? no_suspend - 1 : 0 ))
>            ;;
>
>    there may be value, though, in knowing who sent the message, if
>    only for debugging -- that information can be passed as a second
>    argument on the event.  (the first argument should be a timestamp.)

Sounds like a good idea to me, so I've implemented this exactly as suggested.

>  - does powerd-dbus always die correctly and cleanly when powerd dies?

Yes, the init system kills it. But I've made this more explicit in exit_actions.

New version:
http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/dsd/powerd