Re: Faster automatic shutdown

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 07:49, Sean Atkinson wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> > 	Sure; you can do a load of ORBit_small_listen_for_broken stuff in
> > gconfd on the client handles, and track when they go away. Ultimately
> > though, I'd try to fix the underlying problem. FWIW it works just fine
> > here I was logging into my RH8 laptop and my RH9 workstation as the same
> > user sharing the same gconfd-2 instance over the network only a few days
> > ago.
> 
> I've had a play with listening for broken connections.  I can release
> some clients immediately from the callback, but not all of them seem to
> be triggered.  I've also observed gconfd-2 starting without adding any
> clients, so it still waits for the timeout to shut down.
> 
> What is the "underlying problem", if it's not these clients loitering
> with broken connections?
> 

I think some of the underlying problem is explained here:
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gnome-deployment-list/2003-September/msg00016.html

and here:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-redhat-list/2002-February/msg00023.html
 - follow that thread out a ways.



-sv