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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: pid_t or Q_PID?
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-06-14 19:12:32
Message-ID: 200706142112.44334.thiago () kde ! org
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Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 08:36:40PM +0200, Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
>> Ok, I think we should return at least bool so that the caller can
>> determine if the process was started or not
>
>when you check the logs (and read the code carefully :) you'll notice
>that originally a bool was returned and it was later changed into a pid.
>the immediate users might have vanished again, but i don't think it is a
>very clever idea to remove the functionality.

I think in this case it is.

What do people want to do with a PID?

They can't use kill(2), getsid(2), or waitpid(2)-like functions.

Do they want to know if the process started? That's a bool.

Do they want to have an identifier? That's the KProcess object itself.
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