[Interest] QFileSystemWatcher and accesing files in monitored directory...

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Mon Aug 31 20:18:31 CEST 2015


On Monday 31 August 2015 10:06:26 John Weeks wrote:
> Do you have virus protection software on your machine? We have had to
> implement a system of re-tries to get around the fact that virus protection
> software will often open and check a file right after the file is created.

An interesting after-thought: the virus software should have the same retry 
system. Because it's possible that your application could get to the file 
before the anti-virus software and block it from getting access to the file...

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center




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