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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KProcess bug (starting kded never ends)
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () ens ! ascom ! ch>
Date:       1999-07-19 12:05:50
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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"

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