[sugar] sugar-clipboard does not shutdown

[John J5 Palmieri]

On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 13:57 +0100, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> 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

If you have a D-Bus connection open and the exit on disconnect flag is
enabled (default) then it should be killed when the connection
disconnects (i.e. the bus goes away).

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John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>