xtranophilist/gnome-shell-extension-cpu-temperature — pull request #43 by Farsx (2012-12-29 11:11:25+00:00)
Title: hddtemp running as daemon

Hello,
I made a small patch to detect if hddtemp is running as daemon and if so it detects listening TCP port and gets data using nc.
I implemented it as another option for hddtemp detection without changing the code but in the future we could use just one.

The problem with the direct call of hddtemp binary is that it needs root permissions to access disk devices (at least on Debian).