KDE is not an OS platform... (And neither is Gnome)

[John Tapsell]

2009/11/4 David Faure <faure at kde.org>:
> On Wednesday 04 November 2009, Christoph Feck wrote:
>> On Wednesday 04 November 2009 00:23:04 nf2 wrote:
>> > Qt in particular, because it lacks an async file-IO API.
>>
>> QIODevice (the class which QFile inherits from) is asynchronous,
>> at least API-wise.
>
> But only API wise.
> QFile doesn't emit readyRead like a socket does. It just doesn't make sense
> in the "common case" (local files).

Why doesn't it make sense?  Consider opening  /var/log/messages which
is being continually appended to.

John