[Github-comments] [geany] Geany hangs on saving a certain file (reproducible) (#815)

[elextr]

> But yeah, I'm quite sure it could be handled by improving the robustness of plugin's code, without modifying the API.

@codebrainz it would be good if its possible, but I currently can't see how without breaking the plugins existing, more common, use-cases just for this very rare problem.  Hence my insistence on details.  But also I definitely don't want to re-factor the existing save code so an external solution is good.

> assuming it inter-operates alright with Geany's various file saving strategies.

We could probably make the Geany file write code use the fd, but unfortunately neither Glibs `g_file_set_contents` or GIOs `g_file_replace_contents` accepts a file descriptor, and nor could they, remember they write to a temp file and rename over the result file, they never write directly to the result file.  I guess we just have to accept that there is a slight race condition risk `¯\_(ツ)_/¯`

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