On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Paul B wrote: > On Tuesday 26 August 2008 22:02:02 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > not quite accurate; they do run in the pasma process but as they aren't > > running native code errors in them won't bring down the entire desktop. > > instead, these errors, or "crashes", are caught by the > > runtime/interpreter/vm and handled gracefully. > > Well since that was my main point I suppose this discussion is basically > over, I did read somewhere a while ago (around the time of 4.0) that a C++ > plasmoid could bring down the desktop, I guess whoever said that was wrong > or it's been fixed since then.
the above applies only to scripted plugins, not C++ plugins. C++ can crash the application, but the plasma shell restarts itself. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Trolltech
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