Re: GtkApplication and argc/arv

[Wen-Yen Chuang <caleb calno com>]

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On 02/26/11 03:28, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> (fwiw, g_bus_own_name() in gdbus could in theory make it considerably
> easier to handle bus restart, assuming gdbus itself handles it.)
> 
> The reason apps don't handle it is because this is a very hard thing
> to handle and requires per-app work. You'd have the same problem with
> any stateful IPC protocol. (You can build stateless protocols on dbus
> if you like, that will have no issue.)
> 
> Anyway, the upstream position, or at least my opinion, with respect to
> the system bus, is "restarting won't work in practice because you
> can't rely on apps handling it" rather than "apps should not handle
> it." If apps handle it that's great.

Thanks for the clarification.

I suppose GtkApplication users do not need to handle dbus directly.

So if GtkApplication can handle dbus restart / dbus crash, I may also
consider using GtkApplication for single instance app.

Kind regards
 Wen-Yen Chuang (caleb)
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