[packagekit] Python fork() question

[Sebastian Heinlein]

Am Sonntag, den 02.03.2008, 22:24 +0000 schrieb Richard Hughes:
> On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 22:15 -0500, Robin Norwood wrote:
> > I'm not really sure why it takes so long (1 s?) for the child process
> > to exit...it exits right after calling Finished() - the yum is already
> > unlocked and everything.
> 
> I see in ps aux:
> 
> root      4804  0.0  0.0      0     0 pts/1    Z+   22:13   0:00 [PackageKitDbusT] <defunct>
> 
> Are we sure we're doing the fork and exit properly? I don't really
> understand all this unis fork() lark!
> 
> Richard

Could we perhaps use a simple worker which is based on threading.thread?
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