[Development] Deprecating the static QProcess::startDetached() overloads

Joerg Bornemann Joerg.Bornemann at qt.io
Wed Feb 27 11:24:30 CET 2019


On 27/02/2019 11:03, Konstantin Shegunov wrote:

> ]...]  I use the static `QProcess::startDetached`
> to start the daemon and detach from the controlling terminal (on Linux). 
> I need *AN* API to do this, otherwise I'd have to (re)implement 
> double-forking myself. If there are changes I'm going to comply with 
> them, but please, deprecate only if you allow for detaching (later) 
> through the non-static methods.

I'm not sure, I'm following. The non-static startDetached supports 
everything the static startDetached allowed. No functionality is going 
away, even if the static method is completely removed.


BR,

Joerg


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