kprocess, kpty & kdesu

Andreas Pakulat apaku at gmx.de
Mon Apr 30 22:27:33 BST 2007


On 30.04.07 22:02:43, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> some more or less chaotic facts & thoughts:
> 
> - kprocess would extend qprocess and provide:
>
>     the integration will never be perfect (e.g., there is simply no way
>     to get the pty supported by the waitFor* functions), but i think we
>     can get quite close (set{Read,Write}Channel for read()/write(),
>     setup, notfications, etc.)

Does this mean such a KProcess can't be executed in a synchronous way
under unix? 

>   - cover up qt's omissions, at least on unix. particularly, the
>     possibility to manage only stdout and leave stderr alone (that is,
>     in .xsession-errors for most times).

Does this mean that I'd have to capture stdout and stderr on windows,
even if I only need stdout?

> - kpty is unix-only. as it stands now,

Thats too bad, you know having konsole on windows with an embedded bash
would really rock ;) But I do understand that nobody has the time or
interest to find a way to make this possible..

Andreas

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