Re: assorted gnome-core patches

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 30Aug2001 03:05PM (-0400), Alan Cox wrote:
> > oaf-slay kills all processes that contain the name of an executable
> > that could be launched by oaf somewhere on their command lines.
> 
> Thats poor implementation mostly. If oafd itself wrote proper lock files
> it could clean them up. 
> 
> Let me ask a dumb question - why is the problem hard, why cant oaf die 30
> seconds after the last connect to it, or when something like
> ".gnome/active-sessions/[magicid]" vanishes and it notices ?
> 

My long-term plan is tp have oafd die some time after last use and get
restarted automatically by clients. It's a bit tricky to implement but
not impossible.

 - Maciej