[sugar] sugar-clipboard does not shutdown

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 18:12 +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 11:47:30AM +0100, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 15:50 +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > > OK, but why can't sugar-clipboard fail gracefully like everything else?
> > 
> > I think sugar-clipboard is leaked because it doesn't make an X server
> > connection. The other processes are not exiting gracefully but they are
> > dieing because gtk kills them when the X connection is lost.
> > 
> > We need to figure out a good session shutdown strategy at some point.
> 
> I see that sugar-clipboard is daemonized when created (parent=1):
> 
> joshua    7616     1  6 18:11 ?        00:00:00 python 
> /home/joshua/sugar-jhbuild/build/bin/sugar-clipboard
> 
> This may be a dumb question, but why doesn't dbus remain 
> sugar-clipboard's parent and kill it when dbus dies?

Yeah, that's an issue I run into a few months ago when looking in this
stuff... I'm not sure really, it might just be a dbus bug. If someone
has time to investigate this one it would be useful.

Marco