From kde-core-devel Mon Jul 19 12:05:50 1999 From: Waldo Bastian Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 12:05:50 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: KProcess bug (starting kded never ends) X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=93238598503093 Harri Porten wrote: > > 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. I'll look into it tonight. Cheers, Waldo -- The "gui" in "Penguin" is pronounced "K-D-E"