On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 18:09:45 +0200 Kim Woelders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> > On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 00:01:48 +0200 Kim Woelders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> >
> >
> >>It seems to me that it should be possible to shut down ecore-x and the X
> >>connection without closing the display. I believe this is necessary if
> >>one process using ecore-x forks off a child that calls ecore_x_init().
> >>If there are no objections I will commit attached patch.
> >
> >
> > errr - shutting it down and closing the display connection are the same
> > thing. once the display connection is closed (you go and close the actual fd
> > in your patch) the connection is useless and you will get IO errors. i'm not
> > sure what this gains you.
> >
> When E16 (in CVS branch-exp) forks off children to manage secondary
> screens it goes like this:
>
> ecore_x_init(":0.0");
> ...
> if (!fork()) {
> ecore_x_disconnect();
> ecore_x_init(":0.1");
> }
> ...
> ecore_x_shutdown();
>
> If the child calls ecore_x_shutdown() in stead of ecore_x_disconnect()
> the parents X-connection is killed (by XCloseDisplay).
> If the child just starts with ecore_x_init() it's like a nop because
> ecore_x_init() only does actual work on first invocation.
>
> If this should be done some other way I'm all ears :)
hmmm - good point. because xlib will go through an explicit shutdown process
protocol to be nice about it, not just close() the fd and be done with it...
hmmm i ACTUALLY think this is ok then - good point. :) throw it in! :)
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