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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: fsync() madness
From:       Matt Newell <newellm () blur ! com>
Date:       2008-04-23 3:30:13
Message-ID: 200804222030.13205.newellm () blur ! com
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On Tuesday 22 April 2008 13:26:34 Andreas Hartmetz wrote:
> 2008/4/22, Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>:
> > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 03:15:57PM +0200, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > >  Any objections to disabling the syncing by default (KDE3 it seems,
> > > KDE4
> >
> > lost
> >
> > > the syncing as a part of switching to QTemporaryFile)? I'd still leave
> > > at least an env.variable to enable it again, just to be sure.
> >
> > go for it - KDE_PARANOID_SYNCING.
>
> KDE_SYNC_CONFIG_FILES is more neutral (and more overly long, yo...)
> and self-explanatory. I like variable names that tell me the
> variable's story :)
>

Then maybe KDE_PARANOID_FSYNC would be more appropriate, since this will apply 
to more than config files if my understanding is correct.  Also, FSYNC gives 
a better description than SYNC, as sync is a much broader term.

Matt

 
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