Causes of session management problems in Plasma 5

[Thomas Lübking]

On Donnerstag, 26. November 2015 00:37:35 CEST, Andreas Hartmetz wrote:

> First, by copy I mean a temporary copy that is never merged back into 
> the main list, it's kept around only to know which processes have 
> already agreed to have their session saved and submitted the 
> corresponding data.
> ....
> The current problem is that some applications die between submitting 
> their state to ksmserver (SaveYourselfDone message) and ksmserver saving 
> the list of processes to restart (writing ksmserverrc).

Ok, that's not a problem.

> It is AFAICS 
> safe to assume that an application that has submitted its session data 
> is really supposed to be restored.

Agreed, and if this is only meant as temporary condition we won't restart a session history either. Given the async nature of IPC the cover-up sounds reasonable enough, yes.

Cheers,
Thomas