[KPhotoAlbum] Patch to speed up scanning for new images

[Robert L Krawitz]

   Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 01:32:00 +0200
   From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Kundr=E1t?= <jkt at gentoo.org>

   Robert L Krawitz wrote:
   > I've filed a wishlist for speeding up scanning for new images.  See
   > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D145293.  Patch is attached.

   I might be completely wrong here, but see the "readdir_r considered
   harmfull" article [1] and recent discussion [2], [3] on the lcg-rollout
   ML (see rest of the thread for context).

You win some and you lose some.  I understand the problem, but it
doesn't sound like there's really a safe way around it, since
KPhotoAlbum is threaded.

   [1] http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2005/Nov/0001.html
   [2]
   http://www.listserv.rl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=3Dind0704&L=3Dlcg-rollou=
   t&F=3D&S=3D&P=3D17536
   [3]
   http://www.listserv.rl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=3Dind0704&L=3Dlcg-rollou=
   t&F=3D&S=3D&P=3D21011