KSaveFile

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Sat February 21 2004 18:01, Julian Rockey wrote:
> If I understand correctly KSaveFile helps atomically save data by first
> creating a new temporary file, which is written to, and then deleting the
> original and renaming the temporary file to the original name.
>
> A side effect of this is that the original file's permissions are lost and
> replaced with the default permissions for the user.
>
> In practice this causes me trouble with KAddressBook std.vcf files which I
> want to share between accounts (on a single machine). I chmod g+rw std.vcf
> but as soon as one user edits the address box it's reset to rw-r---- so the
> other then can't.
>
> Should we be remembering the permissions of the original file and
> re-setting them after the renaming? I can patch it if required.

Probably a good idea, yes.

Cheers,
Waldo
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