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

Colin Walters walters at verbum.org
Tue Sep 23 19:48:06 UTC 2014



On Tue, Sep 23, 2014, at 01:28 PM, David Shea wrote:
> 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.

Looks like this is:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646338

Which is really i'd say a NetworkManager/nspr bug, but that's the
current reason.


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