From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NghyZ-0003sU-7U for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:09:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 97628E0769; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:09:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f223.google.com (mail-fx0-f223.google.com [209.85.220.223]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 573C4E0769 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:09:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm23 with SMTP id 23so4450179fxm.2 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:09:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=i4l8L1XkIMNGbov0SAhLPPhFhOKiR2ONMkMil5qzsdU=; b=ONND3LgPcwLkME13UCCXYcg9SPB5agI6Ecdu4V1I5QCvei+hOXu1hrzzgm00Zxu+JF XbtUXxaU31YY11IIgSjSox04I1vzn25zs70fB4DWUuTRlbXrtNTbkNHqxB2N0FWAeUYk 2x8nbip/LkLNzpRU0JVmvJF1zb7TICFr8YTNs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=cb3p1bhQDsbhLUD1oKPLIn2K+2zOYp/XL7zoWFonuHA8PuPwWEkPGwrZipg9MhMLj+ 7MVWQeSRaKnRwoPMlSUh5KT/gw3tcW5m4v4AFHK4UAFLuFlvVN2wdf5lzkgbR1qvUQ+3 8YobSLiYzXUYuhjlOIETp6D97svHJ492FKFAI= Received: by 10.102.222.7 with SMTP id u7mr3019949mug.1.1266167352548; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:09:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from energy.localnet (ip-80-226-1-7.vodafone-net.de [80.226.1.7]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i5sm29258013mue.42.2010.02.14.09.09.11 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:09:12 -0800 (PST) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files? Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:09:08 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.0 (Linux/2.6.31.12r4; KDE/4.4.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <20100208222047.GA6553@muc.de> <201002141617.03745.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <4B7816C2.6080000@metux.de> In-Reply-To: <4B7816C2.6080000@metux.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002141809.08782.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 16bb6153-da0f-4cd0-96b1-a6d91a45a923 X-Archives-Hash: ff86f82c9ebb36f918cd4074ff5c1c45 On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>> so how do you propose that a network connection manager tells > >>> a broweser or mail app that they are offline? > >> > >> use the filesystem ? > >> > >> guess what: I've got a filesystem (a tiny 9p server) which even > >> lets me control the network interfaces. > >> > >> > >> cu > > > > great for you. And how portable is your little solution? > > On the front side, very portable *and* network agnostic. You can > reach the server from practically anywhere (assuming fw allows it) > as long as you can access 9P fileservers (in theory it should also > be re-exportable through other network filesystems, even i didn > try it yet ;-o). > > The backend side (the actual interface controll stuff) yet is > linux-specific, but it can be easily adapted to other platforms. don't waste your time - dbis is already there...