dbus fork problem

David Zeuthen david at fubar.dk
Fri Apr 6 20:02:34 PDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 23:01 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Also, just for the record, applications that fork with a D-Bus
> connection, will not work with recent HAL (e.g. with ConsoleKit enabled)
> - we used the PID to figure out what desktop session (if any) the caller
> originates from and this could fail if the parent exits. We do this to
> deny service to inactive sessions for fast user switching. At least
> gnome-power-manager got fixed to retrieve the connection before
> daemonizing.

Uh, after. I meant after. Of course.

     David




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