Comment 8 for bug 84717

attached effective code diff for easier review

Review of kdelibs packaging bits:
  - please include the bug number and a detailled description of the code changes into the changelog
  - this adds a new function, thus this needs a shlibs bump

The patch is very messy -- is it possible to rearrange the changes to minimize it? right now it seems to move the open() function to a different place whcih generates a lot of noise and thus it's very hard to check.