Firefox Bookmark runner

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Monday 02 November 2009 11:38:57 Will Stephenson wrote:
> On Sunday 01 November 2009 22:49:04 Eduardo Robles Elvira wrote:
> > I have some questions about the runner. It seems to access to firefox
> > places sqlite database. What happens if (much likely if you use this
> > runner) firefox is running and thus also connected to the sqlite
> > database, can't the database get corrupted? AFAIK sqlite does not run
> > as external server process to which the applications can connect to,
> > so both the runner and firefox would be accessing to the database at
> > the same time, and that seems to ask for data corruption. I might be
> > talking shit because I don't much about sqlite, so please enlighten
> > me.
> 
> Zeitgeist (for gnome) work by accessing Firefox' sqlite databases, and
>  does  this apparently safely by taking a copy of the file before reading
>  it.  No guarantee if this is right, I may be talking somebody else's shit
>  too.

That's probably good enough for reading, writing won't work this way...
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sebas

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