Problems with KDE_stat on systems where the default locale is not utf-8

[Ralf Habacker]

Christian Ehrlicher schrieb:
> Thiago Macieira schrieb:
>> On Thursday 20 November 2008 09:11:22 Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
>>>> The Qt API will. Or, alternatively, the Win32 API will (the *W
>>>> functions).
>>> How fast is QFileInfo in Qt4.5? If it's too slow I'm still for a new 
>>> small
>>> wrapper class for local files inside KDE to handle stat() and others.
>>> Adding ifdefs everywhere isn't a nice solution at all.
>>
>> No improvement.
>>
>> The problem is systematic and can't be improved. It can only be made 
>> faster by ditching the file engine support we added in older versions 
>> of Qt. That is, only for Qt 5.
>>
> I would like to add some new functions to kde_file.h - if possible 
> before 4.2 so we can handle non-encodeable filenames on windows.
>
> namespace KDE
> {
>   KDECORE_EXPORT int chmod(const QString &path, mode_t mode);
>   KDECORE_EXPORT int link(const QString &in, const QString &out);
>   KDECORE_EXPORT int lstat(const QString &path, KDE_struct_stat *buf);
>   KDECORE_EXPORT int mkdir(const QString &pathname, mode_t mode);
>   KDECORE_EXPORT int open(const QString &pathname, int flags);
>   KDECORE_EXPORT int open(const QString &pathname, int flags, mode_t 
> mode);
>   KDECORE_EXPORT int rmdir(const QString &pathname);
>   KDECORE_EXPORT int remove(const QString &pathname);
>   KDECORE_EXPORT int rename(const QString &in, const QString &out);
>   KDECORE_EXPORT int stat(const QString &path, KDE_struct_stat *buf);
>   KDECORE_EXPORT int symlink(const QString &in, const QString &out);
>   KDECORE_EXPORT int unlink(const QString &pathname);
>   KDECORE_EXPORT int utime(const QString &filename, struct utimbuf *buf);
> };
> Maybe I forgot some 
close(), read(), write(), lseek(),creat()

Ralf