Re: wxt file-save oddity

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

Re. gvfs. This is a standard part of the gnome kit. It's moderately 
useful if you like GUI file managers, as it lets them "see inside" 
things like zipfiles, ftp directories, SMB shares, etc.

I think Ethan was onto something with his experiment featuring the 
10 second pause. There was a change in gvfs volume-monitor behavior 
in late 2012: "proxy volume monitor: Get session bus on demand. Do 
not connect to session bus at module load, let proxies to get a bus 
when needed." See 
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/commits-list/2012-November/msg00069.html

So I guess what's happening is that when the original gnuplot 
process is still running, the state is such that "get session bus" 
works right, and the child then inherits the required connection. 
But if the original process exits first, the state of the child no 
longer supports initiating "get session bus".

Why this should be, I have no idea, but (maybe) it kinda chimes with 
Daniel's comments about how the gnuplot hand-over-on-fork is 
managed.

Allin Cottrell