https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361956
Bug ID: 361956
Summary: KSaveFile breaks hard links
Product: kdelibs
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: grave
Priority: NOR
Component: kdecore
Assignee: kdelibs-b...@kde.org
Reporter: ro...@yopmail.fr
Hard links are not preserved by KDE applications
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a file (a text file will do)
2. Create a HARD link to that file
3. Open one of the links with Kate (for example)
4. Do some edits
5. Save (NOT Save As!)
Actual Results:
A new file is created, replacing the original one, with the result that the
hard link is broken.
Expected Results:
Hard links should be preserved.
This is a pretty major fail and has caused me quite a bit of lost time trying
to figure out why whatever modifications I was doing to a source code file were
not being taken into account.
Eventually I realised what was going on, but right now I cannot use neither
Kate nor KWrite as my editor. I'm back to vim. :-(
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