On 17/03/2013 23:59, Sylvain BERTRAND wrote: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 11:32:21PM +0100, Hardening wrote: >> This patch adds a shutdow event so that clients can be notified >> when the compositor is about to exit (and potentially kill its >> child processes). >> This patch is based on gh next. > > Is the socket disconnect not enough information for the clients? > As most of the time the compositor launched all the wayland clients, they may be killed before they discover the socket has disconnected.
It can be seen as a "hurry to cleanup before being killed" message. Probably most of the client won't implement the callback but the one that care will be able to. _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
