Re: Gconf backend reads values on demand ?

[Hemanth Yamijala <yhemanth gmail com>]

Mark,

Thanks for the response. One more question though. We're seeing on a
RH Enterprise Workstation machine (GConf 2.8), that very rarely, upon
gdm logout, the gconfd process for that user does not seem to be
terminating. Firstly, I don't know why this could ever happen. Except
on these few occasions, I can see that the gconfd-2 process is cleanly
shutdown and a different process started upon re-login. I also wrote a
test program that constantly keeps querying an arbitrary key in GConf.
This program runs in the background, while I do a relogin. Even in
such a situation, I see that the gconfd-2 is actually restarting.
However, just those random few cases, I saw the old process alive.

In such a situation, would the values read by the previous sessions of
be retained ?

Is there any other scenario in which values could be retained across sessions.

Thanks
Hemanth

On 7/1/05, Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 10:07 +0530, Hemanth Yamijala wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does the GConf daemon read the value of a key from the %gconf.xml
> > files on demand (that is when an application queries it the first
> > time)
> 
>         Yes.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark.
> 
>