From kde-devel  Tue Nov 09 20:15:36 1999
From: David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 20:15:36 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: QMap bug ? (Re: kioslaves don't die?)
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=94217851219878

On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 09:03:04PM +0100, Alexander Feigl wrote:
> At Die, 09 Nov 1999 David Faure wrote:
> > > > > probably I found to cause of the problem : QMap - which is used to store the
> > > > > running kioslaves - seems to hold one entry per key only. (protocol in that
> > > > > case) I added lots of debugging stuff in kio_job.cpp to find that out.
> > > > This
> > > > > really explains why processes get "forgotten". Anything we 
> > > > > could do against it?
> > > > 
> > > > Huh ??
> > > > A QMap can contain several entries per keys. I don't think that's the real
> > > > bug, otherwise a lot of stuff would be broken in KDE !!
> > > > 
> > > > Well, perhaps you could check QMap's behaviour with a 4-lines test
> > > > program... Just to make sure :)
> > > > 
> > > 4-line test? Hmm. I don't manage it that short. But - what is 
> > > wrong with this 30-liner?
> > > 
> 
> *** LOTS OF STUFF SNIPPED ***
> 
> > > 
> > > Can you test it on your machine too?
> > 
> > Just did. Same behaviour here !
> > (Using Qt CVS from 30-Oct-1999)
> > 
> > But .. reading qmap.h ... insert() calls insertSingle() so this
> > would be expected.
> > 
> > insertMulti() exists but only in QMapPrivate ??!??
> > Torben ?
> > 
> 
> The question is : is this a feature or a bug? According to the docs it seems
> more like a bug. But looking at the source it looks like intentional.

Yes.

> Did you write to QT 

No ... (not yet)

> - or is this list regularly read by some QT people?

It is.
Torben wrote QMap, AFAIK.

Torben : in case you didn't follow the beginning of this, the problem is that
QMap holds one entry per key only. A test program using QMap::insert() proved it.
And it seems normal when reading the sources (insert() calls insertSingle()), 
but is this the expected behaviour ?

> We should find out quickly whether we have to change or QT.

I don't even see how we could change this in our code.
We can't call insertMulti() since it's in QMapPrivate...

Torben : help ! :-)

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