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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: ktempfile
From:       Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-10-17 15:59:07
Message-ID: 20071017155907.GB10115 () ugly ! local
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 02:42:36PM +0200, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Em Wednesday 17 October 2007 14:00:52 Jos Poortvliet escreveu:
> > > The other backtrace shows Konqueror saving stuff it has to save (the
> > > history and its mainwindow configuration).
> >
> > Yes, saving, but syncing? How horrible is it too loose browser history
> > compared to the speed gains and lower power usage?
> 
> ALL KDE config saves sync.
>
only in kde3, fwiw. in kde4 stuff was relayed to qt classes and on this
way syncing got lost.

> That's because we can't tell the kernel to sync one single file, so we
> have to sync the entire disk or system.
> 
i'm wondering where you got *that* from? fsync() exists for something
like ... uhm ... how old is bsd4.3?

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