On Monday May 22 2017 15:08:34 Konrad Rosenbaum wrote: Hi,
>This only works if the problem is a crash. Only a minor percentage of That's specifically the point here: post-mortem debug information. >> I'm curious though, why does my QTemporaryFile trick to auto-remove only >> empty files not work as expected? > >Because the QTemporaryFile is not about a file being empty, its about a >file being temporary. It creates a normal file under a unique name and >normally deletes it when it is closed. This happens so you can safely use That doesn't answer my question, which is why setAutoRemove(true) has no effect when I call it just before closing the temp. file. Maybe checking qTempFile->size() or even qTempFile->pos() against 0 doesn't give me the expected result, but then the why question moves to that fact. > In either case QTemporaryFile does >not care a rat's furry backside about the content or lack of content of >the file... ;-) And well it shouldn't, if the file is empty ;) >PS: the time that it took us to discuss the pros and cons of a proper log >rotation scheme is not so much smaller than the time you need to implement >it ;-) Sure, that's often the case ... but just maybe now I'll be learning something 8-) R. _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest