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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: kdeinit
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-04-05 18:32:18
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On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 06:34:09PM +0200, Dirk A . Mueller wrote:
> On Mit, 05 Apr 2000, David Faure wrote:
> 
> > Definitely. Loading all those shared libs takes time, and kdeinit 
> > frees you from that. Commit :)
> 
> Just a second. this will mean that if konqueror segfaults, kdeinit will
> segfault, which means that all other apps also get terminated. I don't like
> that. that's even worse than KDE 1.x. 
> 
> currently if a kioslave crashes or any program that uses a kioslave crashes,
> all other apps connected to kdeinit also get terminated. Yesterday I hacked
> a little on kioslaves and if one of them segfaulted, _all_ KDE apps got
> terminated and X also got terminated. That isn't cool. 
> 
> It would be _much_ better that if one konqueror segfaults, the other ones
> would stay alive. 

Don't they ?

kdeinit _forks_ any new app (and the forked child loads the shared
lib). This means, that if an app crashes, well it crashes, and kdeinit
remains unaffected.

I had the same fear, but I don't think it applies.

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