Re: NEW: hydrogen

[Jacob Meuser <jakemsr_(_at_)_jakemsr_(_dot_)_com>]

On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 10:04:57PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 09:36:24PM +0200, Bernd Ahlers wrote:
> > - I got many of this:
> > 
> >   systrace: deny user: bernd, prog: /usr/local/lib/qt3/bin/uic, pid: 
> >   29205(0)[16880], policy: /usr/bin/env, filters: 144, syscall: 
> >   native-fswrite(136), filename: /hydrogen-0.9.2_writes_to_HOME/.qt
> >   QSettings: error creating /hydrogen-0.9.2_writes_to_HOME/.qt
> 
> This is a classic issue with qt ports... no-one so far as hunted inside
> the qt code to tell it to stop writing these.

this is where it happens.

--- src/tools/qsettings.cpp.orig	Sun Oct  2 18:04:15 2005
+++ src/tools/qsettings.cpp	Sun Oct  2 18:14:34 2005
@@ -504,12 +504,16 @@
 #endif
     QDir dir(appSettings);
     if (! dir.exists()) {
+#if 1  // just warn, don't try to create it
+	qWarning("QSettings: %s does not exist", dir.path().latin1());
+#else
 	if (! dir.mkdir(dir.path()))
 #if defined(QT_CHECK_STATE)
 	    qWarning("QSettings: error creating %s", dir.path().latin1());
 #else
 	    ;
 #endif
+#endif  // appSettings came from ./qdir_unix.cpp::QDir::homeDirPath()
     }
 
     if ( !!defPath )


but that's probably a dangerous patch.  some qt applications do
use ~/.qt for storing user configuration files.

might it not be better to just set $HOME to somewhere that is OK to
write to?

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