Re: oafd lifecycle

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

jacob berkman <jacob ximian com> writes:
> On 16 Jul 2001 14:10:40 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> >
> > We have a problem with "lingering oafd" at the moment. Imagine a large
> > multiuser system; you'll quickly have 300 oafd floating around.
> > 
> > For oafd I think we should exit immediately if there are no servers
> > oafd knows about.
> 
> if you have a multiuser system with many users logged in, this doesn't
> win you anything, correct?
> 

As jrb says - the main issue would be e.g. a system in a computer lab,
where you have an oafd for each user who's used it since the last
reboot.

Havoc