https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402017
--- Comment #16 from Pino Toscano <p...@kde.org> --- (In reply to David Hurka from comment #13) > @Pino: Can you tell more about the problem? Can it be fixed, or do we need > another approach than creating a file handle? See bug 163363. Holding an open descriptor on the document fixes the case that the document disappears (hello firefox, and apparently hello kmail too...) while it is opened in okular. The big downside, which is also what I mentioned, is that file watching breaks, and reading the commit should give an hint on why: the handle is kept for the _old_ file, so when some PDF producer (latex, etc) creates a new file by rename()ing the new temporary file on the old name (which is an atomic operation), you don't notice that. At least, I remember there were problems in the results you get from file watching because of this. While fixing firefox to not remove files under applications' feet is not an easy task (12 years and still no change on that), why don't we fix at least our own products (kmail)? Enabling FileKeeper again will not fix this situation, as you will trade one issue with another. (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #14) > Temporarily wasting some memory or disk space is a far better alternative > than data loss. :) This won't behave nicely in editing sessions e.g. in kile or in other document producers, where you edit the sources and save+recompile to PDF often, resulting in a big churn of file creations/removals, and in slowdown due to the blocking file saving. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
