platform independent kdeinit/klauncher (was KDE4's IPC)

[Thiago Macieira]

Ralf Habacker wrote:
>- is for application starting dcopserver/kdeinit/klauncher really
>required or is a low level implementation located in kdecore possible ?

>- is for kioslave process creating dcopserver/kdeinit/klauncher really
>required or is a low level implementation located in kdecore possible
>(perhaps using threads) ?

In theory, both cases can be implemented as library code to be loaded by 
any application. Therefore, kdeinit and klauncher would just be dedicated 
applications to running those library functions.

In special, I think on Win32 we can think of making KDE_FORK_IOSLAVES be 
the default. That would eliminate the need for IPC and a dedicated 
klauncher. It would be even better if, instead of forking, we simply 
loaded the ioslave into memory and ran it on a separate thread, but I 
would not count on that.

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