Last week, I wrote three blogs about the situation with starting child processes on Unix and being notified of their exit. I raised several problems with the current implementation, which I have tried to solve and I have now a proposal for. If you haven’t yet, you should take some time to read the previous …
Category Archive: Programming
Jul 13
forkfd part 3: QProcess’s requirements and current solution
In the previous posts onmy series of blogs about starting and managing sub-processes on Unix, I talked about how it’s implemented and how the current solutions have limitations. On this post, I’ll show how QtCore has solved the problem (to the extent that it can be solved) and what requirements a new solution must fulfill. …
May 28
“Doesn’t work” doesn’t work
Every now and again, someone posts on IRC or to a mailing lists about an issue they’ve had and their description of the problem is that “it doesn’t work”. There’s nothing more annoying to the person giving help than to see that description… That happened to me twice again today, which is what prompted me …