Upstart 0.6.3 coming to a rawhide near you

[James Antill]

On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 16:45 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Miroslav Lichvar (mlichvar at redhat.com) said: 
> > On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 04:10:34PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Upstart0.6.0
> > 
> > The features highlight list has:
> >   Communication with the init daemon over D-Bus.
> > 
> > > Questions? Comments?
> > 
> > Does this mean that running dbus will be required to reboot/shutdown
> > the system?
> 
> No. The init daemon speaks the dbus protocol, and can be communicated
> with over the system daemon. But it can also be talked to directly.

 Looking at upstart-0.6.3-3.fc13.src.rpm, the specfile
includes /sbin/shutdown etc. ... and looking at the tarball those seem
to come from util/*.c. Which AFAICS require DBus to work.

 Also given that init now listens and is controlled by DBus, has anyone
done any analysis of how resistant DBus services are to DOS attacks?

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