[Kde-pim] mbox + fileChanged slot

[Martin Koller]

On Monday 03 February 2014 22:39:10 Martin Koller wrote:
> Since recently I often get an informational message that akonadi detected
> that the mbox file was changed by an external program - 
> which is exactly what I want and do: an external program downloads mails and
> appends them to an mbox file.
> The message from the mbox resource says "...To prevent this from happening "
>                       "use locking and make sure that all programs accessing the mbox "
>                       "use the same locking method."
> but this is what my external program already does.
> What I do not grasp in the code of the mboxresource (SingleFileResourceBase) is:
> The method SingleFileResourceBase::fileChanged(), which is triggered by the filewatcher,
> is ALWAYS calling handleHashChange(); (which emits this warning message).
> I don't see how locking could change that.
> 
> What was the plan to make this work without the warning message ?
> 
> On the other side, when I try to force that behavior by
> cat someMailFile >> ~/mbox
> I do not get that warning message ...
> Is the emitted warning message not always forwarded to KDE's notification system?
> 
> P.S.:KDE 4.12.1, openSuse

Note: Found out that this problem was already reported by someone else:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287394

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Best regards/Schöne Grüße

Martin
A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
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