[maemo-developers] Possible libosso bug?

[From: Santtu Lakkala]

Eero Tamminen wrote:
> The messages are answered by the co. processes, not D-BUS itself.
> If the message is sent with auto-activation flag, the co. process
> is started.  Otherwise the message is lost (I think).

If you pass something as retval, you will get error code and something 
like "No such service" in the retval "s"-field.

> I think all these libosso functions use the D-BUS auto-activation flag.

True for osso_* -- muali -functions seem not to.

> I would say that it's a bug in the Browser.

I agree.

> You might also use the co. D-BUS message directly _without_
> auto-activation.

That should do it (or you could ask dbus if the service is running or 
not). OTOH telling the browser to exit is not nice, the user might be 
using it for something else too.

-- 
Santtu Lakkala