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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Review requested of the enclosed
From:       Richard Moore <rich () ipso-facto ! freeserve ! co ! uk>
Date:       1999-07-11 23:23:36
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Stephan Kulow wrote:
> 
> Troy Engel wrote:
> >
> > The author of katchit came up with a nifty idea of restarting the KDE
> > kpanel, so that icons added (ie, .kdelnk files) show up for users who
> > don't understand why they don't automatically.  As such, I wrote a tad
> > of shellscript that needs to work across all platforms with RPM and
> > would like to know if it could fail on any of them (mainly related to
> > the usage of 'ps'?):
> >
> > %post
> > kptest=`ps h -C kpanel`
> > if [ -n "$kptest" ]; then
> >   kwmcom kpanel:restart
> > fi
> >
> > I'm thinking about adding it to all my future RPM packages
> > (http://kde.tdyc.com) and am interested in any feedback, either yea or
> > nay in manner.
> 
> Why do you test for ps? Just kwmcom would be do nothing if kpanel won't
> run :)
> 
> In KDE 2.0 you won't have this problem anymore. And besides that - I
> think,
> ps's output is as portable as your binaries will be ;)

I'm not sure that the args given to ps will be portable, what about the
differences between BSD style ps (eg. ps -aux or ps aux) and the System
V style (eg. ps -ef)?

Rich.

> 
> Greetings, Stephan
> 
> --
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