KProcess: writeStdin API braindamage

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 04:48:27PM +0100, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> Now that KProcess creates non-blocking pipes to its child processes
[again]
> it becomes clear that the semantics of the writeStdin function are
> brain dead:
>
guess why i want to merge kprocio into kprocess ...

> hardly any caller makes sure that the data that was passed stays alive
> long enough (t.i. till a wroteStdin signal arrives)
> 
> This patches corrects that, by making a local copy of the data if the
> data could not be directly written into the pipe. This fixes pasting
> large amounts of data into konsole.
> 
i don't like it. the behaviour is clearly documented; working around
usage errors will certainly lead to other problems. fix the apps
instead.

greetings

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