On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 09:38:45AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: >> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 7:06 AM, Pierre-Yves <pingou@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > Would it be allowed to try to restart gconfd ? >> >> It would make sense to SIGHUP gconfd after new schemas are installed, >> yes. Note though we should really only be doing this once at the end >> of a transaction when installation is complete. >> > My understanding was that with current Fedoras, gconf doesn't need this but > I could be misremembering, missing a corner case, or just wrong :-) [walters@pocket gconf (master)]$ git grep inotify [walters@pocket gconf (master)]$ git grep g_file_monitor [walters@pocket gconf (master)]$ So... > We can't do this only once at the end of a transaction but if I'm > remembering a different discussion, doing it multiple times at the end > of the rpm transaction should be almost as good (since gconf will wait for > a few moments from getting the first SIGHUP to see if it will get any other > ones.) Is that correct? It has a 30 second timer currently for "periodic cleanup", and SIGHUP just sets a flag that that function reads. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
