On 01/04/2013 08:06 AM, Mandeep Sandhu wrote: >> >> What I don't understand is that if I mount the USB stick with sync, and >> I have a for loop that copies N files, after the for loop finishes, >> there is a long delay. I can see from the led on the usb stick that >> this is when the files are being written. Is this something that the OS >> (in this case Tiny Core Linux) decides to do or is there some way to >> change this behavior in Qt? > > As others have suggested, why not show a dialog or some such to tell > the user that files are being written to the USB disk (and they should > not disconnect it till the op is over). Nautilus does this when you > try to unmount a drive while the files are being written to the drive. > > You could also try moving the file writing to a different thread and > wait for it to complete in the main GUI thread if you dont want the > GUI to freeze.
I agree but it would absolutely have to be a separate thread. This is a controller and there are watchdogs to maintain. I will do this as soon as possible but I was wondering about the behavior where it seems to buffer all of the actual file copies until done and then writes to disk. _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
