[Pkg-freevo-maint] Bug#575293: Bug#575293: python-kaa-base: integration with twisted does not work anymore

[A Mennucc]

hi,

thanks a lot for the detailed analysis

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 09:14:20PM +0100, Mickael Royer wrote:
> More information :
> 
> The problem does not appear in version 0.6.0-2 and is due to this diff :
> diff -ru kaa/process.py kaa--new/process.py
[...]

yes, this was added in the hope of supporting architectures with
different libc

> When we import kaa, this code is called and ctypes.util.find_library
> call popen function which force kaa notifier init.

do you mean that the call os.popen in 
line 55 in /usr/lib/python2.5/ctypes/util.py
triggers an initialization of kaa notifier ? 

how does this happen? 

can it be avoided?

a.