[poppler] UniqueFileStream and deleted files
Albert Astals Cid
aacid at kde.org
Sat Mar 23 10:36:45 PDT 2013
We have found a problem in Okular that with the new UniqueFileStream class
that has been introduced for multi-threaded rendering we crash when we try to
render a file that has been deleted on disk.
This is because the UniqueFileStream::UniqueFileStream that we use to have
different file pointers to read the xref, etc tries to reopen the file, but
the file is gone and thus operations on it crash.
One option would be just returning false but that would be a sad thing since
we are losing support for a feature we had.
Since we already have the file open we still ahve a vaild FILE that points to
it, i'm suggesting that if in FileStream::copy we detect that the file is
gone, we write it to a temporary location and keep using that one. It might be
a bit slow the first time but can't think of other way of doing it (i tried to
find a way to duplicate a FILE* but failed)
Comments?
Cheers,
Albert
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