Hi, On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:02:43PM +0200, Paul Olav Tvete wrote: > On Thursday 25 October 2012 12:16:40 Rafael Roquetto wrote: > > Afaik QCoreApplication::watchUnixSignal() seems to be no longer used, at > > least in Qt5. If that is really the case, would anyone object doing away > > with it (and removing the overhead from QEventDispatchUnix::doSelect() and > > co.)? Otherwise, what are the possible use cases? > > > > Any thoughts? > > As the original author, I agree that it should be removed. Since > watchUnixSignal() is not implemented for the GLib event dispatcher, > developers > cannot rely on it being available. Also, the original use case is no longer > relevant: it was used by QWS to detect virtual console switching. > > The recommended way to watch for UNIX signals in Qt is: > http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/5.0/unix-signals.html > (making a signal handler that writes to a socket).
Thanks everyone for the feedback. I will wait until the weekend and then if no one opposes, I will submitt a patch to gerrit. - Rafael -- ** Qt Developer Conference: http://qtconference.kdab.com/ ** Rafael Roquetto | rafael.roque...@kdab.com | Software Engineer Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, a KDAB Group company Tel. Sweden (HQ) +46-563-540090, USA +1-866-777-KDAB(5322) KDAB - Qt Experts - Platform-independent software solutions
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