Review Request: Workaround for the hang (freeze) when opening VLC's file dialog under KDE...

[Nicolás Alvarez]

On 04/02/2011, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
>
> Ok, fair enough. Threading-after-pipes-closed is not an option then.
>
> That leaves back again at square one:
>  - one thread per subprocess
> OR
>  - SIGCHLD handler
> OR
>  - kernel developers give us some new syscalls like pidfd or waitpidv
>

Would signalfd (Linux-specific) be useful for this?

-- 
Nicolas