Review Request: Do not terminate threads

[David Faure]

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I think this patch is almost ready, but Dawit's comment seems right about an improvement that should be done to it:

- Move all the preemptive lookup logic from the thread's run function to HostInfo::lookupHost. [No need to create a thread when DNS is already cached].

- David


On Aug. 11, 2011, 10:10 p.m., Albert Astals Cid wrote:
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> (Updated Aug. 11, 2011, 10:10 p.m.)
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> Review request for kdelibs and Dawit Alemayehu.
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> Summary
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> Each time the terminate code triggers my Konqueror crashes, i'm substituting the terminate for just waiting the thread to finish and we just ignoring it.
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> The code has a race condition in which wait() returns false, then we switch to the thread and m_autoDelete is still not set and thus noone will delete the thread. I can add a mutex if you guys think this is unacceptable.
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> Diffs
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>   kio/kio/hostinfo.cpp 344b1d8 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102179/diff
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> Testing
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> When the 
> kDebug() << "Name look up for" << hostName << "failed";
> if triggers i do not get a crash anymore.
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> Thanks,
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> Albert
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