On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 4:39 PM, David Faure <fa...@kde.org> wrote: > If the app crashes between open and close, i.e. in the middle of the writing > -- then what you want to open in your text editor, is the existing untouched > (older) version of the file, NOT the half-written temp file.
"I'm sold" :) > If the app crashes at any other point, i.e. after close(), and then the > 'target' file is the one you want to open anyway. > > The saving happens into the temp file. So there is nothing "to restore" in > case > of a crash, that's the whole point of not touching the existing file until the > final atomic renaming. > > So in fact I think you're confused about where the writing happens ;) Got it :) Thanks for the clarification! -- ------------------------------------------------------- Artur Duque de Souza openBossa INdT - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia ------------------------------------------------------- Blog: http://blog.morpheuz.cc PGP: 0xDBEEAAC3 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net ------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
