Re: upcoming "systemd --user" dependency in gnome-settings-daemon

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2016-05-13 at 13:01 +0300, Christian Hergert wrote:
> On 05/12/2016 07:06 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > So, I intend to use systemd to launch each gnome-settings-daemon
> > plugin
> > as a separate service, which would be tracked, and relaunched
> > through
> > "systemd --user":
>
> We do a fair bit of subprocess launching/tracking in Builder with
> private DBus for IPC, and I would love to be able to re-use the
> spawning/tracking code.
>
> I filed a bug[1] a while back wrt reliably killing processes. But I'd
> really like to see this go just a bit further in terms of something
> like
> a "GContainer" API. Going that route might simplify the process for
> supporting non-Linux too.

For our use, it'll be fire-and-forget. We don't do private IPC, and
"spawning" will be done by systemd itself.