From kde-devel  Mon Jun 10 10:18:29 2002
From: Simon Robins <mail () srobins ! org>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 10:18:29 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: ioslaves
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Hi
I'm new here so go easy... I had a look in the archives and didn't find a=
n=20
answer to my question, but apologies if its been handled before.

I wrote a trivial ioslave for KDE 2 which executed arbitrary shell comman=
ds.=20
e.g kmd:/ps aux|grep myuser
and put the output into whatever document you were using.

I've tried running this in konqueror for KDE3 and things aren't working q=
uite=20
as expected.

A URL such as kmd:/ps seems to send konqueror into a spin never returning=
=2E=20
However the ioslave's get method is being called, but it never seems to e=
mit=20
its data (Also interestingly this still works in kedit)

The same thing happens for URLs such as kmd://blah/foo but not if you put=
 on a=20
following slash (ie kmd://blah/foo/)

I thought initially this was due to some change in the way stat works, (I=
=20
didn't have this method overloaded previously) but according to my kdDebu=
g=20
output its not being called in these instances.

What I would ideally like to do is call commands like this:=20
kmd:ps
sort of like the man slave does and receive the URL uninterpreted so a us=
er=20
can do things like kmd:/usr/bin/ps without there being too much leaning=20
toothpick syndrome.

Anyway some enlightenment on what's going on here would be much appreciat=
ed.
If not could someone point me to the source code for a simple ioslave whi=
ch=20
does this (like kio_man)=20
 
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