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Bug 682331 - GApplication in Garbage Collected environments would benefit from a g_application_command_line_exit() to enable remote instances to exit.
GApplication in Garbage Collected environments would benefit from a g_applica...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: glib
Classification: Platform
Component: gapplication
2.32.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gtkdev
gtkdev
: 708042 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-08-21 06:30 UTC by Andrew Cowie
Modified: 2018-05-24 14:29 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Andrew Cowie 2012-08-21 06:30:28 UTC 
The behaviour of the "command line" capability in GApplication is defined as depending on the lifecycle of the GApplicationCommandLine object.

This is challenging in memory-managed environments because we do not control when the last reference will be dropped by the runtime; although we may have dropped our last reference the runtime will be holding a weak (ie GToggleRef last_ref) reference count to the object, and it may be quite some time before the garbage collector runs to drop this last ref, leading to GObject disposal.

g_application_command_line_exit() or so would allow us to indicated that we have finished processing the arguments, and more importantly, wish the remote to terminate.

AfC
Comment 1 Allison Karlitskaya (desrt) 2012-11-06 18:13:13 UTC 
I dug into this old bug today and it's sort of difficult.

The short story: the command-line handler should obviously call g_application_command_line_exit(), but what happens when that gets called in the case that the invoking instance is the primary instance?  Surely we don't want to exit on the spot...
Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2013-10-17 03:05:30 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 708042 ***
Comment 3 Allison Karlitskaya (desrt) 2013-10-17 12:24:11 UTC 
*** Bug 708042 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-24 14:29:26 UTC 
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