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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    Bug#27937: kbackgammon installs shared kbackgammon.so
From:       Jens Hoefkens <jens () hoefkens ! com>
Date:       2001-07-09 3:08:34
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On Sunday 08 July 2001 01:58 pm, you wrote:
> Jens Hoefkens <jens@hoefkens.com> writes:
> > Hi Daniel.
> >
> > If I remember correctly, the dynamic library is needed for the
> > kdeinit-style launching of KBackgammon (which reduced startup times on my
> > system from 4 to 1 seconds).
> >
> > However, please let me know if I am mistaken and I will have a second
> > look at it.
>
> I'm not sure what you're talking about here.  Are you saying there's
> some way to get kdeinit to fork and load the kbackgammon.so file
> directly?  I suppose that would be able to cut down on startup time.
> Otherwise, I don't see how using a shared library like this could
> possibly reduce startup time.

As a matter of fact that is exactly what is going on. Details are given in 
kdelibs/kinit/README and on http://www.suse.de/~bastian/Export/linking.txt 

Sorry it took me so long to find the links. Also, after KDE2 startup, you 
will notice a bunch of processes with the name "kdeinit: ****" in the output 
of "ps aux". All of these are started that way.

-- 

Cheers,
Jens

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