KConfig/KLockFile performance (was KMimeType performance)

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Tue Oct 9 19:12:05 BST 2007


Em Tuesday 09 October 2007 19:45:47 Maksim Orlovich escreveu:
> The problem here isn't really KMimeType. What happens is that
> KFolderMimeType looks for a .directory file to get a comment, and uses a
> KDesktopFile to read that. KDesktopFile/KConfig tries to lock the file
> with KLockFile. KLockFile can't, no permissions in /usr/include, so it

It shouldn't be locking a file that it can't write to anyways.

And it should be considered an "administration error" to modify a shared file 
while it's in use. (That's why there are tools like vipw to edit /etc/passwd 
and save it atomically)

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