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List:       gtk-devel
Subject:    Re: GTK_MODULE (G)Option breakage & init ordering ...
From:       michael meeks <michael.meeks () novell ! com>
Date:       2006-02-08 10:10:12
Message-ID: 1139393413.4662.47.camel () valid
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On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 18:01 +0800, James Henstridge wrote:
> >	:-) Either way - there is a workaround now; and as Federico says prolly
> >going via the environment is a more robust & cleaner solution.
>
> The only issue with using the environment is that it is inherited by
> child processes.  This might cause a program to think it is being
> invoked as a factory when it isn't.

	Sure - of course, there's a gotcha for the unwary ;-) assuming though
that people init bonobo early; we can clobber the environment variable
after capturing it though.

	It would be nasty surprise OTOH to have IOR:1010... arriving
unexpectedly in random streams of early-spawned children ;-)

	Hey ho.

		Michael.

-- 
 michael.meeks@novell.com  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot

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