Read only file access

[Lukáš Lalinský]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 1:51 PM, patrick machielse <patrick at hieper.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We use TagLib in a Mac OS application. Recently our App Store submission was refused because of 'modifying a user file'. Yes.
>
> Details are fuzzy, but we now believe that the rejection may be a result of TagLib opening audio files in tfile.cpp like this:
>
> file = fopen(name, "rb+");
>
> Is there a higher level way to specify in TagLib that that we only want to open the file in readonly mode?
>
> We noticed this pull-requests on git-hub but there seems to be no resolution:
>
> https://github.com/taglib/taglib/pull/3
>
> I think it would be able to use 'brute force' and copy the files to a temp directory before reading the file tag. I think Apple still allows that (knock on wood), but it is so in-elegant...

The relevant changes were implemented here:

https://github.com/taglib/taglib/commit/a04da3f1592a8833fe2c55b6aa3177bbec0202b5

The API has changed in the development version, that's why the pull
request was not merged.

Lukas