Re: Re: protect .idata from corruption

Bug reported.

-Ole Jacob

On Wednesday 26 March 2003 15:18, Dave Marquardt wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:52:15 +0100, Ole Jacob Taraldset <[email protected]>
> said:
>
> Ole> I just experienced that all the data in my .idata was
> Ole> deleted. The hd was 100% filled last night and that is probably
> Ole> the reason why it happened. Is there anything that can be done to
> Ole> prevent this from happening again (except for maing sure that the
> Ole> hd is filled up)?
>
> I experienced this a while back too.  I consider this to be a bug in
> the code.  There must be some code not properly checking for errors on
> write(), close() or rename().  If I remember the code correctly, the
> updated database is written to a temporary file then renamed to the
> database file name.  Something is failing in here, and it should be
> caught.
>
> So I propose you open a bug (if you don't, I will, eventually), and we
> fix it.

-- 
GexCon AS, Bergen, Norway, <www.gexcon.com>
Tel : +47 55574334 (office) +47 55912224 (home)
Mob.tel. : +47 95080525  Fax : +47 55574331
PGP key : <http://home.broadpark.no/~ojtarald/pgp.txt>
ICQ UIN : 5366306 | Jabber: [email protected]