[RFC][PATCH] Change to buffer lookup for given temporary files

[Stephan Witt]

Am 23.02.2020 um 00:27 schrieb Enrico Forestieri <forenr at lyx.org>:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 08:24:41AM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 10:33:45PM +0100, Stephan Witt wrote:
>>> 
>>> What I wonder: there are the Qt elements used. Why don’t we rely
>>> on the services of QFileInfo class? E.g. canonicalFilePath() and
>>> friends? Are there historical reasons only?
>> 
>> Yes, at the time it was not possible using Qt in src/support.
> 
> Hmmm. That does not seem to be the only reason. I now checked
> QFileInfo::canonicalFilePath() and it does not work on Windows.
> I created a junction but it is not resolved.

That’s a strong argument to not rely on Qt completely.

IMO, the documentation of it promise to do it better.

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qfileinfo.html#canonicalFilePath

"Returns the canonical path including the file name, i.e. an absolute
 path without symbolic links or redundant "." or ".." elements."
 
Thank you for checking that.

Stephan