Review Request: Avoid terminating the thread in kio/kio/hostinfo.cpp

[Dawit Alemayehu]

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(Updated Aug. 12, 2011, 3:45 a.m.)


Review request for kdelibs.


Changes
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New approach to solving this problem.


Summary (updated)
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The attached patch is an alternate approach to address the issue of crashes that arise from terminating an active thread than the one proposed at https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102179/. With this patch the function "QHostInfo::lookupHost(QString, int)" avoids the use of QThread::terminate with the following fairly simple changes:

- Connect its finished signal to its parent deleteLater slot in the ctor so that the thread is automatically deleted later.
- Store the looked up DNS info in  the global cache to avoid unnecessary queries for the same request.
- Check for cached DNS information and avoid doing reverse look ups before resorting to performing DNS queries in a separate thread.


Diffs (updated)
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  kio/kio/hostinfo.cpp 344b1d8 

Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102238/diff


Testing (updated)
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Local unit testing code. Tested both failing and working DNS lookup scenarios.


Thanks,

Dawit

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