GConf error

[Colin Walters]

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> 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 at pingoured.fr> 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 at pocket gconf (master)]$ git grep inotify
[walters at pocket gconf (master)]$ git grep g_file_monitor
[walters at 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.