Konsole showstopper?

[Lubos Lunak]

On Wednesday 14 of January 2004 10:33, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Wed January 14 2004 05:07, Rob Kaper wrote:
> > I just froze 3 Konsoles by trying to insert a backtrace with RMB ->
> > Paste. Can anyone reproduce or verify this was fixed recently?
>
> Yes, I can confirm. Seems to be QClipBoard related. Attaching strace to the
> process gets it to live again.

 It seems to be KProcess related, if you attach gdb, you'll end up in blocking 
write() in KProcess::slotSendData(). Strace resumes it because the write() 
will be interrupted by a signal. It looks like KProcess feeds to much data to 
the shell, who then feeds data back to KProcess, causing a deadlock (KProcess 
trying to send data to shell, shell trying to send data to KProcess, both OS 
buffers already full).

 I tried limiting the data size for write(), but that doesn't really help. I 
guess KProcess will need to go non-blocking on the sockets. Any volunteers?

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Lubos Lunak
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