kprocess, kpty & kdesu

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:52:53PM +0200, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> >- it is pretty much conceivable that other sequential devices want to be
> >  wrapped, too (i'm pretty sure i'd find some examples if i scanned the
> >  kde codebase (*)). so why not go for a generic solution?
> 
> The generic solution is QIODevice itself, no?
>
i thought about it, i read the code. short answer: no. if it wasn't so,
qprocess and qabstractsocket wouldn't have a hundred+ lines of buffering
code each. i guess the trolls should consider creating QSequentialIODevice,
but i don't count on it in this decade. ;-P

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