From kde-core-devel  Thu Dec 09 10:56:19 1999
From: Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 10:56:19 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: dcop interfaces, standard ?
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Bernd Gehrmann wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 09 Dec 1999 Torben Weis wrote:
> 
> >In practice it often shows that dealing wirth multiple processes in a
> >distributed object environment you get really big problems because
> >it is so easy to make errors.
> 
> In practice it often shows that dealing with multiple 'programs'
> in one address space you get really big problems.
> 
> * Programs arbitrarily modify other programs' name space
> * Different programs may use different versions of the
>   same library => clash
> * Different programs may use the same symbol names => clash.
>   Such problems are _really_ hard to find.
Yeah - I remember with scare the problem when libkfile had a
KBookmarkManager class that kfm had too but with a little bit
different semantic and used to crash nicely when opening a
file dialog.

Greetings, Stephan

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