Comment 195 for bug 317781

@Theo,

Been digging through the source to track down how it does it. Managed to find it. It does use a central consistent method, which does use a tempfile. However, it does not (as of yet) force a sync. I'm working on getting that added to the code now. Here's the python routine it uses:

self.__filename: the full path to the user's configuration file.
self.__tempfile: the same path and filename but with a dot prefix

 def write(self):
  (base_dir, filename) = os.path.split(self.__filename)
  self.__tempfile = os.path.join(base_dir, '.' + filename)
  try:
   f = open(self.__tempfile, 'w')
  except IOError, e:
   return str(e)
  try:
   gajim.config.foreach(self.write_line, f)
  except IOError, e:
   return str(e)
  f.close()
  if os.path.exists(self.__filename):
   # win32 needs this
   try:
    os.remove(self.__filename)
   except Exception:
    pass
  try:
   os.rename(self.__tempfile, self.__filename)
  except IOError, e:
   return str(e)
  os.chmod(self.__filename, 0600)