KDirWatch question

[Anders Lund]

On Monday 20 December 2004 17:46, Andras Mantia wrote:
> I used to have something similar (compare by content the file as it was
> when it was opened with the version as it is when the dirty signal
> comes), but I got rid of the temporary file, and now I have to find
> another way, and would be much nicer if KDirWatch handles this job as
> it might be useful for others as well.

We don't use a temporary file. A md5sum of the document is created and stored 
inside the doucment object when it is opened, and whenever it changes on 
disk, a md5sum of the disk file contents is created and compared to that.

-anders
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