>I can't quite figure out what you're trying to do, but running big GUI >programs and libraries with root privileges (whether that's from systrace or >doas or sudo or su or whatever) is usually not a good idea.
Thinking about it now, I guess if you add root write privileges to writing files, you add it to the whole X system that is governing the Kate, kdiff, or kompare. It would probably be worth just having a script read the root owned file into a temporary file operating on it and doing doas to copy it to the original file location. I just want the fine grained control that diff doesn't seem to offer. And I hate vi. <[email protected]> > > <[email protected]>
