[maemo-developers] Restarting the D-Bus system bus

[From: Frédéric Crozat]

Le mercredi 31 octobre 2007 à 21:50 +0100, Ludovic Courtès a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> Ross Burton <ross at burtonini.com> writes:
> 
> > I'm guessing because the system bus dying is a fatal condition.
> 
> Sure, but I'm curious as to why this is fatal.  :-)

Because, by default, libdbus causes client exit when D-Bus bus exit. It
can be changed with an API call (a lot of program are handling D-Bus
restart nicely) but Avahi doesn't :(

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Frédéric Crozat