From kde-core-devel  Sun Mar 03 20:27:46 2002
From: Charles Samuels <charles () kde ! org>
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 20:27:46 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Pid for dcop
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søndag 03 mars 2002, 04:12 am, skrev Martijn Klingens:
> On Sunday 03 March 2002 09:06, Charles Samuels wrote:
> > I'de like to add a standard dcop function (to the qt object?) to get the
> > pid of the process.  This is to make kdekillall work on non-linux
> > systems.
>
> Better make 100% sure then that the process is running on the local
> machine. Currently kdekillall is based on 'ps' output IIRC, so you can't
> possibly kill remote apps. But with using DCOP you might find a remote app
> and a pid and then kill off a local process that happens to have the same
> pid.
>
> Or am I overly concerned here?
>
> > Would this be acceptable?
>
> If it doesn't have side-effects for Linux you can't possibly make it worse
> as kdekillall currently doesn't work if I understand you correctly. So,
> yes, fine with me.

Well, I _was_ going to add it to the "qt" interface -- but after seeing the 
code, and playing with it for about 20 minutes.. I've changed my mind :)

How about we add a cleaner second interface, like "app" or so, with useful 
functions like pid(), and anything else any of us can think of?

-Charles