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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KProcess bug (starting kded never ends)
From:       Harri Porten <porten () tu-harburg ! de>
Date:       1999-07-19 12:06:12
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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?
> (Have you ported it to HEAD already?)

Correction: the fix is already in the CVS since July 12. This leaves us
with two alternatives: the fix is broken (would be very bad for KDE 1.x)
or the problems aren't related at all.

Harri.

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