python activities startup

Simon McVittie simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk
Wed Feb 6 12:25:45 EST 2008


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On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 at 10:13:23 -0600, Klaus Weidner wrote:
> Would it be feasible/helpful to use the "uncore" approach used by Emacs?
[...]
> Of course, any initialization done initially must not depend on external
> state, so for example any connections to the X server or other network
> connections would need to be delayed

D-Bus connections, too. If a process forks or does a core/uncore cycle after
opening a D-Bus connection (including, but not limited to, any call to
dbus-python's dbus.Bus(), dbus.SessionBus() etc.), chaos is likely to ensue.

Regards,
    Simon
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