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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: ioslaves
From:       aleXXX <alexander.neundorf () gmx ! net>
Date:       2002-06-10 21:44:34
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On Monday 10 June 2002 12:18, Simon Robins wrote:
> Hi
> I'm new here so go easy... I had a look in the archives and didn't find an
> answer to my question, but apologies if its been handled before.
>
> I wrote a trivial ioslave for KDE 2 which executed arbitrary shell
> commands. 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
> quite as expected.
>
> A URL such as kmd:/ps seems to send konqueror into a spin never returning.
> However the ioslave's get method is being called, but it never seems to
> emit 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 following slash (ie kmd://blah/foo/)

AFAIK the first part after a "://" should always be the host which is 
contacted. So if it is on localhost, you should use "kmd:/blah".

URL's like "kmd:blah" are AFAIK supported through  
kdebase/kcontrol/ebrowsing/plugins/shorturi/ manipulations.

> I thought initially this was due to some change in the way stat works, (I
> didn't have this method overloaded previously) but according to my kdDebug
> output its not being called in these instances.
>
> What I would ideally like to do is call commands like this:
> kmd:ps
> sort of like the man slave does and receive the URL uninterpreted so a user
> can do things like kmd:/usr/bin/ps without there being too much leaning
> toothpick syndrome.
>
> Anyway some enlightenment on what's going on here would be much
> appreciated. If not could someone point me to the source code for a simple
> ioslave which does this (like kio_man)

Do you call finished() in your ioslave when your done with one job ?

Bye
Alex
 
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