Lifecycle events and mir_connection_release
Christopher James Halse Rogers
chris at cooperteam.net
Fri Jul 18 04:40:09 UTC 2014
Hey, y'all.
One of the things the RPC transport rework has shaken out is the
interaction of mir_lifecycle_connection_lost and mir_connection_release.
Previously, mir_connection_release would not generate a connection_lost
lifecycle event; now it (mostly) does, and this is reflected in the
updates to the tests.
Really it should be deterministically one way or the other, though.
What is the behaviour we desire here? Should mir_connection_release
guarantee that mir_lifecycle_connection_lost is never generated in
response, or that mir_lifecycle_connection_lost is always generated in
response.
I favour the latter; it means that clients can always assume that
they'll receive a connection_lost message and can trigger cleanup
accordingly. Otherwise they need to cleanup triggered by
connection_lost or by some part of the code calling connection_release.
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