[Interest] QFileSystemWatcher malfunctioning

Robin Burchell robin+qt at viroteck.net
Thu Jan 12 13:45:45 CET 2012


On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Sujan Dasmahapatra <sdh at lmwindpower.com> wrote:
> QFileSystemWatcher intends to give signal if the file is modified outside of the application right ??? Let me know if I am wrong. But I am modified the file from within the application then why it should emit the signal. ????

That's not a correct assumption. QFileSystemWatcher's job is to report
modifications. It doesn't care what made them. Filtering the changes
your application makes is your application's responsibility.



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