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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: kdeinit
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () suse ! de>
Date:       2000-04-05 22:46:34
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On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, 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.

No. It has its own process. Only that instance of kdeinit crashes.

> 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.

?? There is something very wrong if that happens. io-slaves should be able to 
die at any time without taking any program with them. Maybe we need to do 
some more SIGPIPE catching.

> It would be _much_ better that if one konqueror segfaults, the other ones
> would stay alive.

Cheers,
Waldo

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