[master 00/17] Improve child process starting and management

David Shea dshea at redhat.com
Tue Sep 23 17:28:46 UTC 2014


On 09/23/2014 12:17 PM, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2014, at 03:36 PM, David Shea wrote:
>>    - None of this ever actually gets called, because gdk calls _exit(1)
>>    (!!)
>>      when it loses the X connection.
> That behavior is inherited from libX11 - every toolkit does it.  The
> intention is to tie application lifecycle to that of the display.

This is almost true. For example, qt calls exit(1) on an I/O error. The 
difference there is that 1) it doesn't call _exit, because skipping our 
shutdown handlers is seriously a jerk thing to do, and 2) there's at 
least a fixme comment showing they're aware that this behavior isn't ideal.

>
> Wasn't there a patch recently which just changed things to leave VNC
> open before reboot that addresses this?

What if VNC crashes, is what I'm trying to get at.


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