[Interest] How to overcome QNetworkDiskCache limitation

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday 19 October 2015 16:37:03 Gian Maxera wrote:
> Hello,
> the documentation says:
> 
> "Currently you cannot share the same cache files with more than one disk
> cache."
> 
> What is the issue on sharing the same cache files ?

The saving of cache files is not atomic and some information is kept in 
memory. So two disk caches would keep different states and possibly cause data 
corruption.

> How can I overcome this limitation without rewriting from scratch a disk
> cache ?

Edit the Qt source code and modify QNetworkDiskCache.
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