kiod is KIO's daemon, which can run multiple DBus services (modules)
It is similar to kded, but without the KSycoca dependency, the kdeinit dependency, the dir watching for kbuildsycoca, the workspace startup phases etc.
kiod makes KIO more independent.
The modules still inherit KDEDModule, they are just hosted by another daemon. In kiod, the modules are only loaded on demand via DBus calls. For this reason, the keys "X-KDE-Kded-autoload" and "X-KDE-Kded-load-on-demand" have no effect for kiod modules.

kioexec is launched when the user wants to open a remote file with an application that only supports local files.
For this it does the following: - downloads a remote file to a temp location - starts a 'local' application with that temp file as argument - wait fors application to be exited - if the modification time of the file is different from the original one, (because the file was modified) then it offers re-uploading the modified version. This is how you offer network transparency to apps that don't have it.

SEE ALSO: README

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