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Re: musings on session service mgmt
- From: David Zeuthen <davidz redhat com>
- To: Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop <fedora-desktop-list redhat com>
- Subject: Re: musings on session service mgmt
- Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:40:05 -0500
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 11:37 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 11:29 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
>
> > Maybe it's just me, but I think it's a lot easier to just fix the few
> > programs such as screen and nohup to opt out of getting reaped..
>
> Unix has had a pretty standard definition of "session" using SIGHUP.
> The way programs have historically "opted out" of termination is to
> ignore that signal.
>
> I don't think we should change that.
Fine so we send a SIGHUP instead of SIGTERM, then SIGKILL. Makes this a
lot easier.....
> Rather, some programs should be fixed to gain a dep on X11, DBus, or be
> run through the babysitter.
Why do you think it's a good idea to add libX11 or libdbus deps to a
program that don't use either? Do you think random upstream projects
would ever take such patches?
David
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