[Digikam-devel] [svn-0.9] IE sub process not killed when IE window is closed.

[Caulier Gilles]

Le Dimanche 07 Mai 2006 04:35 PM, Marcel Wiesweg a écrit :
> Am Sonntag 07 Mai 2006 11:11 schrieb Gilles Caulier:
> > Le Dimanche 7 Mai 2006 02:03, Thorsten Schnebeck a écrit :
> > > Another small bug in current SVN:
> > >
> > > Clicking on a thumbnail starts the IE and if a raw file is involved
> > > also a dcraw sub process. If I now immediately close the IE the sub
> > > process still runs.
> >
> > I remember that there is a pending task about this subject in
> > Digikam::DImg::RawLoader implementation. Marcel, your viewpoint ?
>
> The process is created with popen and closed with pclose. However, pclose
> does not kill the process but waits for its termination.
> So there is currently no support for aborting the loading of a raw file.
>
> The discussion was about if we will move to some sort of library one day
> (the freedesktop project) and then we could support aborting without
> problems.
>
> We might want to port the code to KProcess, which we can kill. I don't know
> if there are any good reasons for using popen.

No Marcel there is no technical reasons, excepted perhaps the performances 
about process creation.

I have just used popen like gimp raw plugin does. I'm agree with you, KProcess 
will certainly better (like krita Raw loader does).

Gilles