Re: oafd lifecycle

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:

> Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com> writes: 
> > Also, a timeout does not distinguish between oafd-as-objectdirectory
> > (which needs to timeout), oafd-as-activationcontext (which needs to die
> > with the session), and oafd-as-both (the lifetime of which is uncertain).
> > 
> 
> Yikes. So, I have zero understanding of this - 
>  - what is an object directory
>  - what is an activation context
>  - how do we reliably die with the session
> 
> Also, it turns out that pstree shows OAF as child of init, so I'm not
> sure what's going on there. (I guess it's that we spawn it via the
> double fork.) So now I don't know why oafd is currently dying with the
> session...

Hmm, it does not for me for some strange reason. I tried both the oafd from
GNOME 1.x (Ximian GNOME on Debian woody) and the one from GNOME 2 (both in
a GNOME 1.x environment; started X with `xterm' as window manager and then
manually launched gnome-session).

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