Re: Moving volume monitoring out of process (Was Re: gio, gvfs and nautilus fixes)

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 16:23 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 15:43 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > I really don't know how to do that in a clean way... I don't know. It's
> > both nice and annoying that volume monitoring now is in-process. 
> 
> So maybe one thing to consider for gvfs for gnome 2.24 is to move the
> hal volume monitoring code out of process. This can be done without ABI
> changes; the client side bits would just be stubs/proxies/cache using
> D-Bus to talk to a private D-Bus service.
> 
> Then we'd add gnome_mount_get_mount_flags() and also have a mount flag
> to GMountMountFlags, say G_MOUNT_MOUNT_FLAG_WAS_AUTOMOUNTED.
> 
> Also, this would solve some of the issues we have for x-content/*
> handling; the out-of-process hal volume monitor will just scan each new
> mount.
> 
> Finally, we'd get rid of some existing (libhal.so) and future library
> pollution in each app using gio/gvfs.

This sounds good to me actually. We can just move it to gvfsd and use
raw dbus calls to get things. It will probably fix the issues with
find_enclosing_mount() requiring a hal-volume-monitor singleton too.