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HAL provides an easy-to-use API through D-Bus. D-Bus is an IPC framework that, among other features, provides a system-wide message-bus that allows applications to talk to one another. Specifically, D-Bus provides asynchronous notification such that HAL can notify other peers on the message-bus when devices are added and removed, as well as when properties on a device are changing.
In the Solaris operating system, HAL is supported by a daemon, hald(8), and a set of utilities that enable the adding and removing of devices and the modification of their properties.
See the HAL pages, including the HAL specification, under http://freedesktop.org.
November 26, 2017 | OmniOS |