https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402017

--- Comment #19 from Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> ---
>  the handle is kept for the _old_ file, so when some PDF producer (latex, 
> etc) creates a new file by rename()ing the new temporary file on the old name 
> (which is an atomic operation), you don't notice that.
> At least, I remember there were problems in the results you get from file 
> watching because of this.

This could be workaroundable (or already is?) by watching the parent dir as the
parent dir would see the file disappear and be created. I remember some case in
which this was neeed and i think it was working, but as said, needs somebody to
test it extensively (ideally adding autotests :))

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