long running sessions, restarts, etc.

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 29 18:24:42 UTC 2009


On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> With the move to more mobile devices (laptops, etc.), we're more likely to
> have very long-running sessions that are just suspended and resumed, as
> opposed to a workstation that is logged out every day.
>
> This means that for me on rawhide, my session is often much longer-lived than my
> software set, as I'll have a two-week session that is running older code
> that I've long since upgraded past. Even for those on an actual release,
> this can be an issue given our update stream.
>
> For system-level services, we have the idea of try-restart on upgrades; if
> the service is running, we automatically restart it on upgrade. How can
> we implement this sanely for session/desktop services? For example, in
> my session I see:
>
> gvfsd


Wouldn't this affect current mounts?




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