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Diffstat (limited to 'src/corelib/io/qsettings.cpp')
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diff --git a/src/corelib/io/qsettings.cpp b/src/corelib/io/qsettings.cpp index 0406aeb501..321525ca18 100644 --- a/src/corelib/io/qsettings.cpp +++ b/src/corelib/io/qsettings.cpp @@ -2496,6 +2496,12 @@ void QConfFileSettingsPrivate::ensureSectionParsed(QConfFile *confFile, \snippet code/src_corelib_io_qsettings.cpp 7 + \li On Mac OS X, permissions to access settings not belonging to the + current user (i.e. SystemScope) have changed with 10.7 (Lion). Prior to + that version, users having admin rights could access these. For 10.7 and + 10.8 (Mountain Lion), only root can. However, 10.9 (Mavericks) changes + that rule again but only for the native format (plist files). + \li On Unix and Mac OS X systems, the advisory file locking is disabled if NFS (or AutoFS or CacheFS) is detected to work around a bug in the NFS fcntl() implementation, which hangs forever if statd or lockd aren't |