Re: bonobo activation question

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 12:51, Bill Haneman wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 11:43, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> ...
> > I think it should be a system-wide daemon, not a per-user one, since
> if
> > it's a per-user one, what if b-a-s hasn't been started yet? Also, if
> > it's a multi-user machine, with many users connected, it would mean
> > having n*2 daemons running (*2 because there would the 'normal' b-a-s
> > daemon and the remote one).
> 
> Keeping this a per-user daemon would relieve some of the security
> concerns, and also map better onto the existing b-a architecture IMO,
> particularly for the multi-user cases that are most interesting here.
> 
> That doesn't mean that some kind of b-a-s daemon to spawn the per-user
> activation servers wouldn't make sense; in fact I suspect that this is
> the kind of two-tiered solution that will be required.
> 
yes, exactly. The system-wide daemon could just have as unique
responsibility to fire up the per-user b-a-s, and maybe keep a reference
to the activated ones, so that subsequent requests for that same user
just get a new reference to the already activated per-user b-a-daemon.

cheers