musings on session service mgmt

[Colin Walters]

On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 17:23 +0100, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 11:10 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 16:14 +0100, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> > 
> > > Not in the least, there are programs which are supposed to stay running
> > > even when you log out -- screen, vncserver, nohup'ed processes etc.
> > 
> > No one is talking about changing the semantics of "nohup".  
> 
> Perhaps I'm a bit slow, but how would it not do this if it relies on the
> inheritance of a previously non-existent environment variable that needs
> to be deleted if a process shall not be killed on session exit?

Oh I see, I was wrong; yes David was talking about automatically killing
all processes.  That is wrong, I agree with you.

As Havoc said, having them connect to X11 or DBus, or using a babysitter
that does is the right way.