Acquire root privileges for QFile

[craftyguy]

If it is Linux that you are referring to then you could read the capabilities man page as a way to give you program 'limited' superuser abilities.

Thanks for the suggestion. Doesn't this require the application to be executed with superuser privileges already?

I modified my QT Creator run script to include 'sudo' so that the application is run as superuser, however the debugger does not attach to it (since it tries to attach to 'sudo', and rightfully so.) Short of running QT Creator as root, is there at least any way I can debug a root application?