From kde-core-devel  Sat Dec 18 23:54:23 1999
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () suse ! de>
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 23:54:23 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Question about kio redesign
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On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Antonio Larrosa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm thinking that there could be a problem with the new design someone
> (coolo?) proposed for kio.
> If I'm not wrong (and to put it simple), there's a daemon and it forks for
> each kio command, isn't it ?
> If so, there could be a problem with dial-up connections.
> It seems that the resolv.conf file is only loaded by libresolv on startup
> of the application (in this case, when the daemon is run, or perhaps when
> the first kio_http child is forked, I don't know, but it doesn't matter). 
> 
> The problem is that kppp (and similar apps) change the contents of that file,
> so it should re-read it after the change, but this cannot happen unless you
> restart the application. 
> 
> Well, I should say that I don't know much about all this except for
> what comes in the wwwoffle FAQ (question 3.2), so I may be completely
> wrong with this.

This is solvable. We just need to flush (kill) our io-slaves when a
change in online-state happens. The only thing we need is a portable
way to get to know about changes in online-state. This is being
addressed by NetMgr and friends.

Cheers,
Waldo