Re: nautilus-throbber / BonoboEventSource refcounting

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

i forgot to hold shift down while replying.

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From: Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>
To: jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>
Subject: Re: nautilus-throbber / BonoboEventSource refcounting


On Monday, May 21, 2001, at 08:40  PM, jacob berkman wrote:

> On 21 May 2001 17:49:20 -0700, Darin Adler wrote:
>> I think we can use some kind of lease. Objects are created with a lease
>> (say 10 minutes) and the lease can be extended. Owning objects extend the
>> lease (say every 5 minutes).
>
> my knee-jerk reaction is to worry about which timeouts get called first
> after my latop  unsuspends - the lease cleanup, or the renew lease.

This does sound like something we'd have to get right. The best approach 
is probably to have the lease expiration use a 5-minute timer and just 
wait for two times in a row.

     -- Darin
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