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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE & multithreading
From:       Kurt Granroth <granroth () alpha ! tat ! physik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       1999-05-14 1:13:01
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Lubos Lunak wrote:
> I wrote a little class that performs non-blocking gethostbyname() call and
> put it in KBiff 2.3.5 . Seems to work well. Two threads in my other test app
> update GUI simultaneously.

Can you email it to me?  I've been meaning to make KBiff truly asyncronous for
awhile but never got around to it.  If it compiles on all KDE supported
systems, then I'm definitely interested!

>  So, does someone think it can be useful or is there something better ? If
> there's nothing better, it could be at least used for some apps in 1.1.2 (
> having to wait 10 minutes before logout finishes is somewhat annoying ).
 
Are you absolutely sure that it is the networking code in KBiff doing this?
I'll concede to the non-repaints... but I've never had KBiff hang a logout
session and I use it everyday (obviously)!
-- 
Kurt Granroth            | granroth@kde.org
KDE Developer/Evangelist | http://www.pobox.com/~kurt_granroth

        KDE -- Putting a Friendly Face on Linux

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