Review Request: Make KDirWatch inotify threaded.

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

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Not really a review but still relevant: KDirWatch is broken and it's the actual reason for <a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196316">bug 196316</a>. I have not found the time to fix it, though.


- Pau


On 2009-10-24 13:45:55, Sebastian Sauer wrote:
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> (Updated 2009-10-24 13:45:55)
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> Review request for kdelibs.
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> Summary
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> Problem;
> Under heavy hd load (e.g. compiling KDE) KDirWatch may freeze for fractions of seconds or even longer.
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> Solution;
> Do the same QFileSystemWatcher (qt/src/corelib/io/qfilesystemwatcher_inotify.cpp) does and make the QSocketNotifier+inotifyEventReceived logic threaded.
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> Warning;
> This *needs* review.
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> Diffs
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>   /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kio/kio/kdirwatch_p.h 1038809 
>   /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kio/kio/kdirwatch.cpp 1038809 
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> Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/1963/diff
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> Testing
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> kdelibs/kio/tests/kdirwatch, kdelibs/kio/tests/kdirwatch_gui
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> Thanks,
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> Sebastian
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