[OE-core] [PATCH v2] matchbox-keyboard: daemonize launch

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Mon Feb 17 11:23:19 UTC 2014


On 16 February 2014 14:13, Alexandre Belloni
<alexandre.belloni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
>> Also, why do you need another shell instance, out of curiosity. ISTM
>> that only wastes RAM..
>
> We create a shell and start in the background to wait for
> matchbox-desktop to start. This allows X continue to start and run the
> next Xsession scripts. And matchbox-desktop has to be the last started
> program si we don't have any other way. Anyway, once the
> matchbox-keyboard daemon starts, the shell will exit and not use ram
> anymore.

As matchbox-keyboard.sh is being sourced, I don't think we need to subshell.

Ross



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