KJob deleting itself too early?

[David Faure]

On Sunday 18 November 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to know why KJob deletes itself when he's done doing its work?
> Shouldn't this be done by whoever creates the KJob?
No, many jobs are fire-and-forget, and when they're not, people would forget to delete them.
The job is done, it's done, it deletes itself. KDE3's KIO::Job has always worked like that.

> I don't think its a good idea to delete the job behind the back of the
> user, in particular when you don't know how a KJob instance (or subclass
> thereof) is used.
Doesn't matter how it's used: after the job emits finished, it's finished :)

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