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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE & multithreading
From:       Hans Meine <hansmeine () dial-net ! de>
Date:       1999-05-29 9:58:32
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On Tue, 11 May 1999, Lubos Lunak wrote:
>On Út, 11 kvì 1999, Sven Radej wrote :
>I don't know if kfm can also cause such long logout delay, the problem on my
>computer is usually KBiff, which is blocked by a gethostbyname() call and
>causes the logout procedure to block, because AFAIK kwm simply sends all
>applications SAVE_YOURSELF and waits in an infinite loop until they all
>respond ( which is a problem if they are blocked ). I hope the new session
>management won't try to do it this way.
I think this is the right way to do. It is the same with Linux system shutdown.
It is a hassle to see the timeouts after SIGTERM and SIGKILL because one never
knows how long somethings _can_ take. How should the windowmanager know that
kbiff is not a program which has to store a 300M database in it's current state
to disk? ;-)

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