Hi,

since the file ioslave is a very basic element, I think it would be a good 
idea to keep at least one of them always around, so that it hasn't got to be 
restarted. The attached patch for kdelibs/kio/kio/scheduler.cpp does this.

Bye
Alex


--- scheduler.cpp       2002/03/14 19:40:06     1.86
+++ scheduler.cpp       2002/05/01 21:20:49
@@ -623,16 +623,24 @@

 void Scheduler::slotCleanIdleSlaves()
 {
+    bool keepFileSlave=true;
     for(Slave *slave = idleSlaves->first();slave;)
     {
         if (slave->idleTime() >= MAX_SLAVE_IDLE)
         {
+           if ((slave->slaveProtocol()=="file") && (keepFileSlave))
+           {
+              keepFileSlave=false;
+           }
+           else
+           {
             // kdDebug(7006) << "Removing idle slave: " << 
slave->slaveProtocol() << " " << slave->host() << endl;             Slave 
*removeSlave = slave;
             slave = idleSlaves->next();
             idleSlaves->removeRef(removeSlave);
             slaveList->removeRef(removeSlave);
             delete removeSlave;
+           };
         }
         else
         {