pid_t or Q_PID?

[Christian Ehrlicher]

David Faure schrieb:
> On Thursday 14 June 2007, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 08:36:40PM +0200, Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
>>>> Ok, I think we should return at least bool so that the caller can
>>>> determine if the process was started or not
>>> when you check the logs (and read the code carefully :) you'll notice
>>> that originally a bool was returned and it was later changed into a pid.
>>> the immediate users might have vanished again, but i don't think it is a
>>> very clever idea to remove the functionality.
>> I think in this case it is.
>>
>> What do people want to do with a PID?
> 
> It was used for startup notification purposes.
> But now I see that it's handled internally in runCommandInternal so indeed there's no
> need to propagate the PID up in the API (right, Lubos?)
> 
>> Do they want to know if the process started? That's a bool.
> 
> Yes, it should be turned (back) to a bool. Doing so now. I'll commit on Monday.
> 
Oh, do you also port k3process -> kprocess? Would be nice. Otherwise I
have to do this after your checkin.

Christian