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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: kcminfo patch
From:       Harri Porten <porten () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2001-06-21 13:41:16
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On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Adriaan de Groot wrote:

> [Purely theoretical objection.]
> 
> I'd object on the basis of having a while() loop in the UI code that
> doesn't include a kapp->processEvents(). Imagine what happens if there's
> an executable lspci in someone's path like this:
> 
> 	#! /bin/sh
> 	sleep 5
> 	echo "yo"
> 	sleep 20
> 	echo "d00d"
> 	sleep 5
> 	echo "PCI latency 0wnz y000!"
> 
> Yes, it's pathological. No, sensible people don't have renamed system
> binaries in their path. Even so, this doesn't seem right. I've bitched at
> people on #kde to use processEvents() or a QSocketNotifier, so I'll do the
> same to you.

.... or KProcess :)

Harri.

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