Use idle callback to write to the local config directory

[pspp-builds.git] / src / ui / gui / psppire-conf.c

diff --git a/src/ui/gui/psppire-conf.c b/src/ui/gui/psppire-conf.c
index 07db3b58c21e5d07e16d8789a285f2ad20978450..fe4f934bd640193e382f1fc077c7ff661f91850b 100644 (file)
--- a/src/ui/gui/psppire-conf.c
+++ b/src/ui/gui/psppire-conf.c
@@ -20,7 +20,11 @@
 */
 
 #include <config.h>
+#include <errno.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+
+#include <glib.h>
 
 #include "psppire-conf.h"
 
@@ -71,8 +75,8 @@ conf_read (PsppireConf *conf)
                             NULL);
 }
 
-static void
-conf_write (PsppireConf *conf)
+static gboolean
+flush_conf (PsppireConf *conf)
 {
   gsize length = 0;
 
@@ -84,8 +88,19 @@ conf_write (PsppireConf *conf)
     }
 
   g_free (kf);
+  conf->idle = 0;
+  return FALSE;
+}
+
+static void
+conf_write (PsppireConf *conf)
+{
+  if ( conf->idle == 0)
+    conf->idle = g_idle_add_full (G_PRIORITY_LOW, 
+                                 (GSourceFunc) flush_conf, conf, NULL);
 }
 
+
 static void
 psppire_conf_dispose  (GObject *object)
 {
@@ -140,13 +155,22 @@ psppire_conf_class_init (PsppireConfClass *class)
 static void
 psppire_conf_init (PsppireConf *conf)
 {
-  const gchar *dirname = g_get_user_config_dir ();
+  const gchar *dirname;
+  struct stat s;
+
+  /* Get the name of the directory for user configuration files, then, if it
+     doesn't already exist, create it, since we might be the first program
+     to want to put files there. */
+  dirname = g_get_user_config_dir ();
+  if (stat (dirname, &s) == -1 && errno == ENOENT)
+    mkdir (dirname, 0700);
 
   conf->filename = g_strdup_printf ("%s/%s", dirname, "psppirerc");
 
   conf->keyfile = g_key_file_new ();
 
   conf->dispose_has_run = FALSE;
+  conf->idle = 0;
 }