ioslaves

[David Faure]

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On Monday 24 June 2002 21:17, Simon Robins wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 June 2002 18:00, David Faure wrote:
> > On Wednesday 12 June 2002 18:40, Simon Robins wrote:
> > > On Monday 10 June 2002 22:44, aleXXX wrote:
> > > > > I wrote a trivial ioslave for KDE 2 which executed arbitrary shell
> > > > > commands. e.g kmd:/ps aux|grep myuser
> > > > > and put the output into whatever document you were using.
> > > > >
> > > > > I've tried running this in konqueror for KDE3 and things aren't
> > > > > working quite as expected.
> > > > >
> > > > > A URL such as kmd:/ps seems to send konqueror into a spin never
> > > > > returning. However the ioslave's get method is being called, but it
> > > > > never seems to emit its data (Also interestingly this still works in
> > > > > kedit)
> > > > >
> > > > > The same thing happens for URLs such as kmd://blah/foo but not if you
> > > > > put on a following slash (ie kmd://blah/foo/)
> >
> > This means you need to implement stat(). When the URL doesn't end with a
> > slash, kde doesn't know what type of file it is - so it calls stat().
> > Make sure to also call mimeType() as the first thing in get().
> > In fact get() should be called most of the time, even from e.g. minicli,
> > now ... but it _needs_ the mimetype to be emitted.
> 
> The problem turned out to be due to not emitting the mimetype. Thanks for your 
> help, its not entirely obvious that would cause that particular problem.
> 
> I don't know if this is the forum to make some comments about kdevelop:
> Firstly this mimeType bug was largely not spotted by me due to the standard 
> kdevelop template (which I used as a starting point) for ioslave development 
> not emitting the mimetype as the first thing done. 
> 
> This has lead to several hours of puzzling for me why stat() is never even 
> called!

Who's in charge for the KDevelop templates? Can this be fixed?

[Why are those templates still in .tar.gz form in CVS? If they were not,
and the tarballs were done at "make" time, I could fix this kind of thing easily. 
With targzs it's just too easy to make mistakes.]

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David FAURE, david at mandrakesoft.com, faure at kde.org
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~david/
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