[g-a-devel] Re: GTK_MODULE (G)Option breakage & init ordering ...

[michael meeks <michael meeks novell com>]

On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 18:01 +0800, James Henstridge wrote:
> >	:-) Either way - there is a workaround now; and as Federico says prolly
> >going via the environment is a more robust & cleaner solution.
>
> The only issue with using the environment is that it is inherited by
> child processes.  This might cause a program to think it is being
> invoked as a factory when it isn't.

	Sure - of course, there's a gotcha for the unwary ;-) assuming though
that people init bonobo early; we can clobber the environment variable
after capturing it though.

	It would be nasty surprise OTOH to have IOR:1010... arriving
unexpectedly in random streams of early-spawned children ;-)

	Hey ho.

		Michael.

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