[GNOME VFS] Re: Daemons [Was: gob inside gnome-vfs ...]
Michael Meeks <[email protected]>
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Hi Seth, On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 01:37, Seth Nickell wrote: > > They're a bit of a pain from an administrative and support perspective, > > things like oafd/bonobo processes lying around (Michael says the b-a one > > cane be fixed now, with some careful thought), gconfd versions, > > gnome-settings-daemon running or not, etc. They shouldn't lie around, so ... > I would propose we create a single super-daemon which you can write > "plugins" for (that run in their own threads). Sigh - this is really not going to work nicely - especially since you almost always want to use CORBA to communicate with the daemon - and that's not going to like threads. Also, it would seem to make no sense to glub together a gnome-vfs daemon, the gconf daemon, the a11y daemon and bonobo-activation (eg.) I think it's probably better to make bonobo-activation more intelligent with respect to daemons & displays [ a <daemon> tag in the .server file ? ] - and allow it to fork / reap daemons as the desktop starts / exits etc. I don't think there is really a problem with lots of small daemon processes, as long as they all go away cleanly - especially if they have distinct roles. The stability argument alone is quite telling I think. Regards, Michael. -- [email protected] <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot _______________________________________________ gnome-vfs maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/gnome-vfs