[Okular-devel] [Bug 265218] The "recent documents" file menu should be consistent across instances

[davidblunkett]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265218





--- Comment #7 from davidblunkett <dav1dblunk3tt hotmail com>  2011-08-30 08:42:26 ---
I don't think pine is a good example here.  The filelocking in pine is complex
but this is because of several reasons: pine stem from a time when system file
locking was not standardised, pine had to deal with many different systems and
files systems (some of which did not support file locking), pine has to operate
with many different non cooperative programs who would access the files and
pine had to deal with critical data, loss of which was unacceptable.

The situation here is rather different on all of these counts and a very simple
file locking system would be just fine. The history is written to a config file
on exit (presumably this has a lock mechanism to avoid race conditions?).  This
is reread on starting.  Just reread this once in a while (and update it once in
a while).

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