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List: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Question about kio redesign
From: weis <weis () stud ! uni-frankfurt ! de>
Date: 1999-12-21 10:34:43
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Hi,
On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> 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.
Well, is it that easy? I dial in with
isdnctrl dial ippp0
on my SuSE, since I hate automatic dialing. But isdnctrl does
for shure not tell th kio slaves to restart ...
Bye
Torben
> Cheers,
> Waldo
>
>
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