Re: Bug#385976: strange (and annoying) delay on startup
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 07:09:36PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2006, Robert Millan wrote:
> > > My opinion is that whoever creates the environment variable which lists
> > > the socket should make sure the socket is available before spreading
> > > the news,
> > It did, and at that time the socket was present. It's just that the socket
> > is not there anymore.
>
> If everyone would have done so, the current code wouldn't have to
> special case the absence of the socket as a "try again" error. My
> suggestion is to return a hard error instead and fix the applications
> to wait for the socket to exist before they publish the environement
> variable.
I don't know about Desktop Env applications, but why would a shell care? It's
agnostic about what the env variables mean (well, mostly).
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