From kde-core-devel  Mon Jul 19 11:21:39 1999
From: Harri Porten <porten () tu-harburg ! de>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 11:21:39 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KProcess bug (starting kded never ends)
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=93238334329957

Waldo Bastian wrote:
> 
> David Faure wrote:
> >
> > Kill your kded, start an application using it, it will try to restart kded.
> > It now uses KProcess to do that (thanks to Waldo AFAIK).
> >
> > But : currently it doesn't work, for me at least. kded _is_ restarted,
> > but the call never returns. It seems KProcess is still reading on kded's standard
> > output even if the process has exited (kded forks on startup) => endless loop.
> > It seems the problem is that some signal handler in KProcess is not called
> > (when the child dies).
> > Don't know enough about KProcess to fix this.
> > Can anybody reproduce / fix this ?
> 
> Harri:
> Could this be somehow related to this bugfix you had for 1.1?

The symptoms sound similar. I haven't checked how KProcess is used in
this case so I can't say for sure.

> (Have you ported it to HEAD already?)

Ooops. Will do that today.

Harri.