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Still need to add test cases / docs but this seems to work great.

This makes it easier to write mechanisms as they don't have to watch
for the client requesting service vanishing.

For some weird reason.

Signed-off-by: David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>

All the functionality of polkit-1(1), sans managing the local
authority, is now available in pkaction(1) and pkcheck(1). In the
future we might want to add something like pklamanage(1) to manage the
local authority.

This is just a simple wrapper for the CheckAuthorization() D-Bus method.

See these messages

 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg01364.html
 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-May/msg01397.html

where this helper was discussed - it may make it a lot easier to use
polkit from code that pretends to care about OOM conditions.

Instead, just return the PolkitAuthorizationResult that already has
authorized==FALSE and challenge==TRUE.

This is because bindable GObject APIs should never return or accept a
GHashTable, see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581686#c6
for details.