On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 12:37 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
It doesn't require modifying apps. The idea is just to have a
binary
which monitors X11/DBus, and can fork()/exec() a child binary to
monitor. If X11 goes away, it kills the child. Thus the only thing
that needs to be modified is that the session startup script is changed
from:
some-random-daemon --args
to:
dbus-scope-to-session some-random-daemon --args
Falls apart when some-random-daemon daemonizes...
> > But I think (generally speaking) most
> > projects nowadays *should* gain a dbus dep, and if we can explain
> > clearly to them why it it useful, they would accept it.
>
> I think that is what they call wishful thinking. Seriously.
Let's be more concrete here - what other apps are buggy?
I'm sorry but I don't have a magical list of all the potential programs
that people may run. And if I did, I certainly wouldn't put myself
through the pain of reviewing each and every program even if I had the
source code.
David