On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 11:25:16 +0100 Mick <[email protected]> said:
> On Monday 10 Apr 2017 18:41:05 Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > stuff used to be so much simpler 20 years abck. you just had your login > > manger run ~/.xsession. this script would run your wm last without & (with > > exec before if u were smart) and anything u wanted launched on login before > > that in the script. > > > > today it's a forest of services and god knows what... > > > Yes! Services, service prerequisites upon dependencies, environment parsers, > etc, etc. > > Now that you're mentioning using 'exec', I recall reading in this M/L that > /usr/bin/enlightenment_start does *not* need exec before it. Is this correct? exec is not needed... but it's a little wasteful not using it. exec REPLACES the shell process with enlightenment_start. without it the parent shell that runs enlightenment_start stays around with any memory and other state it needs to just sit around and sleep forever until enlightenment_starts exits. that's a bit of a waste of resources for a process that will do nothing after enlightenment_start exits... :) -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
