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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Serious DCOP problem.
From:       Matthias Ettrich <ettrich () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2000-12-20 19:09:54
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Wednesday 20 December 2000 19:41 wrote Waldo Bastian:
> I ran into a rather serious problem with DCOP.
>
> What seemed to have happened is the following:
>
> knotify did a system("aplay somefile") and got stuck on that for some
> reason. As a result knotify didn't handle incoming DCOP request any more.
> This caused the DCOP server to lock up on a write() call as part of a
> ICESendMessage (probably after it's buffer filled up with other requests).
> Result: a total lockup of the desktop.
>
> It's unacceptable that the DCOPserver brings down the entire desktop due to
> one hanging application!!!!

Agree. Any ideas how to solve this?


Matthias

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