Re: cd burning in gnome

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 01:56:00PM -0500, Alex Graveley wrote:
> OTH, if we made the burn: file-storage per-process, you could
> significantly simplify the implementation (drop the unix sockets-based
> daemon altogether), relying on a gconf key to ensure two programs aren't
> burning at the same time.  But this leads to funky cross-process
> semantics.
> 

Ignoring the immediate topic, remember that GConf Is Not An IPC
Mechanism. i.e. please do not use it as a mutex for locking the CD
burner.

Havoc