tree e2bd0a13af24415516c84bd7315fa644202b71f1
parent cade87b9fd03a2d3e234c55a413476a49a7edbe4
author Benjamin Berg <bberg@redhat.com> 1595881352 +0200
committer Benjamin Berg <bberg@redhat.com> 1647945417 +0100

gdesktopappinfo: Move launched applications into transient scope

Try to move the spawned executable into its own systemd scope. To avoid
possible race conditions and ensure proper accounting, we delay the
execution of the real command until after the DBus call to systemd has
finished.

From the two approaches we can take here, this is better in the sense
that we have a child that the API consumer can watch. API consumers
should not be doing this, however, gnome-session needs to watch children
during session startup. Until gnome-session is fixed, we will not be
able to change this.

The alternative approach is to delegate launching itself to systemd by
creating a transient .service unit instead. This is cleaner and has e.g.
the advantage that systemd will take care of log redirection and similar
issues.