On Tuesday 06 February 2001 22:07, Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 11:45:13AM +0000, David Faure wrote:
> > > > I dare not imagine what would happen for him, if kdesktop would restart
> > > > every time it crashes :)
> > > 
> > > It restarts only once! The crashHandler is set to 0 when it is restarted.
> > 
> > Ah ok, no problem then.
> 
> are you really sure? If kdesktop crashes when loading a background image
> and it then launchen a new kdesktop with system(), it will have a new
> crashhandler, no?

Hmm, that's what I thought too. Why do you say it will have the crashhandler
set to 0, Matthias ?

> Setting the crashhander to 0 is only to prevent looping crashes, when the
> crashhandler itself crashes.
Right. Yup, seems to be the misunderstanding here.
The new kdesktop process is very well able to crash, indeed.

What about using system("kdesktop --nocrashhandler") ?
Unless I'm wrong, it should make the KCrash::setCrashHandler call do nothing ?

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