Review Request 123857: Fix crash after a user has launched kbuildsycoca as root.

[Martin Gräßlin]

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src/kbuildsycoca/kbuildsycoca.cpp (lines 392 - 395)
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    would this affect sessions running as root?


- Martin Gräßlin


On May 20, 2015, 12:11 a.m., David Edmundson wrote:
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> (Updated May 20, 2015, 12:11 a.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks.
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> Repository: kservice
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> Description
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> 3 commits fixing; a crash, what caused the crash, and why we weren't auto recovering from it.
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> QFile::open() will return a Read/Write error on failed access,
> PermissionsError is only in the result of a setPermissions call.
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> CCBUG: 342438
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> Don't write kbuildsycoca cache files as root
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> $HOME is often preserved as root, making us write cache files in the
> user's home directory. People shouldn't be running apps as root anyway.
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> CCBUG: 342438
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> Guard against being unable to open stream
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> This can happen if we are unable to open the database when a
> notifyDatabaseChanged signal is emitted.
> Other places guard also against this eventuality.
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> BUG: 342438
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> Diffs
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>   src/kbuildsycoca/kbuildsycoca.cpp d14f1f950cdb0d8c9fefbce2a4740f211d3d97a1 
>   src/services/kservicegroupfactory.cpp 8cfc6c6670d3b87e8ed6bdfe4aeac947846afc18 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/123857/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> David Edmundson
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