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> ossi wrote in fdreceiver.cpp:89
> i don't see why that would be horrible; as i pointed out multiple times 
> already, this change is redundant. one correction, though: add a code comment 
> here rather than extending the commit message.
> 
> getsockopt() is standard, but the actual options aren't. you could change the 
> ifdef to SO_PEERCRED itself, but that wouldn't actually add any portability.

> i don't see why that would be horrible

I meant adding "acceptConnection = true;" after #warning would look weird. 
Obviously that's not even an issue and I shouldn't have mentioned it.

There is a discussion[1] going on related to a similar change in ktexteditor. 
Because ktexteditor also uses polkit to save files in read-only location, one 
of the suggestions to improve this process, in case the owner of target is not 
root, was to either ignore the operation or drop privileges to owner/group of 
the directory. Now in KIO the kauth helper performs every operation as root. So 
if in future it is decided to do a privilege drop before performing any file 
operation on non-root targets then this change will likely be a hindrance. 
After considering the  fact that this is also redundant, now I am not really 
feeling confident about this change. Just out of curiosity, I want to know 
(although I feel weird for asking this) what was your reason for accepting this 
patch?

[1]: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1033055#c13

REPOSITORY
  R241 KIO

BRANCH
  master

REVISION DETAIL
  https://phabricator.kde.org/D12291

To: chinmoyr, #frameworks, dfaure, ossi
Cc: kde-frameworks-devel, ossi, michaelh, ngraham, bruns

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