PolicyKit releases and !AWOL

[Nicolas Trangez]

On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 11:33 -0500, Doug Klima wrote:
> It's still providing some functionality that's provided by glib and as
> such still re-implementing a sub-set of glib and to what benefit?

IIRC for the same reason glib can't be used inside eg the xorg server,
as glib will exit(3) whenever an allocation is done (using eg g_malloc)
which returns NULL (OOM). Something you can't afford to happen in a
long-running application like your X server or polkit.

Nicolas
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