Review Request 118612: Fix KDirWatch's unit tests on certain file system.

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This review has been submitted with commit a0c1b1c2b263bc7d0ed2f71028231ca261ab5c33 by Matthew Dawson to branch master.

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On June 13, 2014, 9:57 p.m., Matthew Dawson wrote:
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> (Updated June 13, 2014, 9:57 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks.
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> Repository: kcoreaddons
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> Description
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> When using QFileSystemWatcher, try to avoid having deleted files stop being watched.
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> When a file is deleted, QFileSystemWatcher does not explicitly signal this fact,
> instead emitting a generic changed signal.  However, it will stop watching the file
> in question, at least on Linux with the inotify backend.  Normally this is ok, but
> if a file is quickly recreated and the inode number is unchanged, KDirWatch assumes
> the file is still monitored and no further changes to the file will occur.
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> Instead, KDirWatch will now always try to re-add the file to QFileSystemWatcher.
> It doesn't bother checking if the operation succeeded, as in most cases it will
> fail as the file is still watched.  It can only assume the file is now being
> watched at this point.
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> Fix unit tests for KDirWatch when TMPDIR's filesystem reuses inode numbers.
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> When the filesystem TMPDIR points to (by default /tmp) reuses inode numbers,
> the testDeleteAndRecreateFile test will fail as neither the stat nor the
> QFileSystemWatcher backends can detect the deletion/recreation as two discrete
> events.  They only detect the fact the file changed, and emit the dirty signal.
> Fix the test suite to check for this case, and allow the test to proceed.
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> Diffs
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>   autotests/kdirwatch_unittest.cpp c3dba4391b8ebcbedeaa53d51f2a170aa5695ccb 
>   src/lib/io/kdirwatch.cpp 7da1fdba8cd1a2e6a7d5bf9cef999d50b44ebf99 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/118612/diff/
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> Testing
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> Unit tests all pass on all four backends (FAM only tested against gamin)
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> Thanks,
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> Matthew Dawson
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