Leaking autolaunched busses
Havoc Pennington
hp at redhat.com
Sat Dec 16 16:12:47 PST 2006
John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> The autolaunch code is pretty useful for when you log into another user
> in a terminal and run an app that requires D-Bus. Unfortunately all of
> these busses are tied to the X session so if you log in as 100 users you
> get 100 busses and logging out of that user does not close them.
> Autolaunched busses should be smart enough to close themselves on a
> timeout if there are no apps attached to it (apps like gnome-vfs should
> be smart enough to know no one is talking to it and exit after a timeout
> so they don't block the bus). It is not a huge issue but we should fix
> it at least in the development version.
>
I'm not sure I understand what's happening - the autolaunched bus should
be an X client. If it gets disconnected, then it should exit.
Are you saying that if user A logs out, their X clients can remain
connected? What am I missing?
Havoc
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