musings on session service mgmt

Colin Walters walters at redhat.com
Fri Jan 4 17:01:41 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 11:37 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 11:35 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > Oh I see, I was wrong; yes David was talking about automatically killing
> > all processes.  That is wrong, I agree with you.
> 
> Care to explain why this is wrong?

See my other mail.

> > As Havoc said, having them connect to X11 or DBus, or using a babysitter
> > that does is the right way.
> 
> So in order to avoid having a process linger we now need to patch it?
> Good luck with that....

Don't need luck in the original case you were talking about, just an
editor and commit access to the upstream =)

Here's a patch for GConf:


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