opening files in read-only mode

[Scott Wheeler]

Sergey 'Jin' Bostandzhyan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> sorry to bring this up a second time, basically I have exactly the same
> issue as described in this post (which stayed unanswered):
> http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/taglib-devel/2008-April/000943.html
>
> I need to be able to open the files in read only mode; I tried achieving this
> by subclassing, but got nowhere. So unless I am missing something, it would
> be very nice to get the ability to do something like 
>
> TagLib::FileRef f("name", ro_parameter) 
>
> Is there any chance that the API could be extended to support this?
>   

I'm not specifically opposed to adding this, but if it's really 
triggering an inotify signal even when no writes occur that sounds like 
an inotify bug.  Please add a wishlist item for this in the bug tracker.

(I'm still super busy at the moment -- per my recent blog post, I'm 
trying to finish up at my current job while trying to get a new company 
ready to launch.)

-Scott