[RFC wayland 1/2] server: implement intact resources

Bill Spitzak spitzak at gmail.com
Mon Mar 23 08:00:26 PDT 2015


On 03/23/2015 04:22 AM, Giulio Camuffo wrote:
> 2015-03-23 12:00 GMT+02:00 Marek Chalupa <mchqwerty at gmail.com>:
>> Destroyed seems confusing to me too, since the resource is not really
>> destroyed. What about inert or unalive ?
>
> Inert is ok, imho. On the client side they are called zombie
> objects... maybe for consistency it'd be better to keep that here too.

"zombie" seems like a really good idea. There is lots of precedent for 
that too, not just Unix processes but discussion of weak pointers.



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