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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [RFC] KConfig API stuff
From:       Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-10-23 9:31:02
Message-ID: 20071023093102.GB8720 () ugly ! local
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On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 09:50:59AM +0200, Hans Meine wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 23. Oktober 2007 09:27:53 schrieb Alexander Neundorf:
> > On Tuesday 23 October 2007 04:16, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > > new inspiration: fakeSync() pretty much hits the nail on the head ...
> >
> > I didn't follow closely, but a method named fakeSync() tells me only that
> > this method does not really sync (but it doesn't tell me what it does).
> 
> Same here, I find "fakeSync" worse than many of the previous suggestions.
> 
well, it's sort of symmetric with sync() (no, i won't rename sync to
reallySync :).
and honestly, no matter how we name it, you won't *really* know what it
does without looking up the docs.

> > Maybe discardChanges() ?
> 
no, it's just wrong.

> I like "cancelPendingWriteouts". ;-)
> 
preventAlreadyPerformedWritesFromBeingFlushedToDisk ;)
seriously, i don't like it because i associate it with interfering with
something that is in progress in the backgroud, while this function only
changes state.

anyway, this is waaaay too much noise for a function that is used four
times in all of KDE/ and nowhere in extragear/ or koffice/ (iirc).

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