signals on the bus

Simon McVittie simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk
Tue Aug 7 10:27:13 PDT 2007


On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 at 11:03:40 -0600, Kevin DeKorte wrote:
> If I have an app that runs and periodically sends a message that is of
> signal type and nothing picks it up. What happens to that message? Does
> it just sit around on the bus. Does it just get dropped since nothing is
> registered to process that signal?

It gets dropped. When the bus daemon receives a message, it forwards it
to all the interested processes, then forgets about it. If no processes
are interested at that moment, the message isn't delivered to anyone.

	Simon


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