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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE is not an OS platform... (And neither is Gnome)
From:       John Tapsell <johnflux () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-11-04 2:00:29
Message-ID: 43d8ce650911031800u7e3f3141nf905443ee265a1ac () mail ! gmail ! com
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2009/11/4 David Faure <faure@kde.org>:
> On Wednesday 04 November 2009, Christoph Feck wrote:
>> On Wednesday 04 November 2009 00:23:04 nf2 wrote:
>> > Qt in particular, because it lacks an async file-IO API.
>>
>> QIODevice (the class which QFile inherits from) is asynchronous,
>> at least API-wise.
>
> But only API wise.
> QFile doesn't emit readyRead like a socket does. It just doesn't make sense
> in the "common case" (local files).

Why doesn't it make sense?  Consider opening  /var/log/messages which
is being continually appended to.

John
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