Re: Is GConf suitable for daemons?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Jens Askengren <jensus linux nu> writes: 
> How safe would it be to use GConf from an application run by root,
> possibly dealing with untrusted data?

In no way safe. Not audited at all.

> What about threading? Apache style process pooling?

Won't work so well. 

GConf just isn't designed for this and you'd have pretty bad
square-peg-round-hole issues I believe.

Havoc