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Re: musings on session service mgmt
- From: Dan Williams <dcbw 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 11:46:48 -0500
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 11:35 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 17:23 +0100, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 11:10 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 16:14 +0100, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> > >
> > > > Not in the least, there are programs which are supposed to stay running
> > > > even when you log out -- screen, vncserver, nohup'ed processes etc.
> > >
> > > No one is talking about changing the semantics of "nohup".
> >
> > Perhaps I'm a bit slow, but how would it not do this if it relies on the
> > inheritance of a previously non-existent environment variable that needs
> > to be deleted if a process shall not be killed on session exit?
>
> Oh I see, I was wrong; yes David was talking about automatically killing
> all processes. That is wrong, I agree with you.
>
> As Havoc said, having them connect to X11 or DBus, or using a babysitter
> that does is the right way.
One problem here is that too many apps set exit-on-disconnect false with
D-Bus to work around bugs in the stupid app where the app gets kicked
off the bus for doing something bad.
dan
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