Announcing printerd

Posted May 22, 2012 15:39 UTC (Tue) by gioele (subscriber, #61675)
In reply to: Announcing printerd by nye
Parent article: Announcing printerd

> why does this need to be a daemon at all? What gain is there from a constantly running process rather than an executable launched when required?

From the dbus homepage:

> D-Bus […] makes it simple […] to launch applications and daemons on demand when their services are needed.

Posted May 22, 2012 23:05 UTC (Tue) by lindi (subscriber, #53135) [Link]

From doc/TODO: "Service termination when no clients or jobs running".