konqueror preloading issue

[Stephan Kulow]

Am Donnerstag 01 Juli 2004 20:11 schrieb Roger Larsson:
> On Thursday 01 July 2004 17.47, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > On Tue June 29 2004 14:20, Dr. Juergen Pfennig wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 29 June 2004 10:17, Roger Larsson wrote:
> > > > Opening "about: blank" when closing?
> > >
> > > Wow! I used to do this in HTML-dialog enabled applications under
> > > Windows years ago! So basically you are right, it works fine with
> > > Internet Explorer.
> > >
> > > But I guess that for Konqueror some kio_file slaves stay monitoring
> > > directories for changes (which is my concern with automount etc.).
> >
> > In general io-slaves will be freed after 3 minutes of inactivity.
> > See Scheduler::slotCleanIdleSlaves() in kdelibs/kio/kio/scheduler.cpp
>
> Freed after 3 minutes? What about io-slaves that are not actively in use?
> i.e. have no client(?) interested in that location. OK problem when moving
> back/forward between a CD and FTP server...
You don't want a FTP connection closed too soon. You might want to continue 
browsing or open the URL in another application.

The file slave doesn't stay longer than required in an device as changing back 
into a device is very cheap - minus bugs of course.

Greetings, Stephan