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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: ioslaves
From:       Simon Robins <simon.robins () OrbisUK ! com>
Date:       2002-06-12 16:40:38
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On Monday 10 June 2002 22:44, aleXXX wrote:

> > 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".

In this case I'm not trying to contact any host. Is konqueror trying to 
resolve an address by itself in these cases?

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

I think this is the beastie I want to be looking into using.

>
> > 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 ?

I do. Like I said it works after a fashion in apps like kedit.

> Bye
> Alex
>
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