From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@permabit.com>
Cc: 23397@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23397: 25.0.92; assertion failure auto-reverting a file being overwritten
Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 18:15:37 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d1p3kw9y.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6efuu0chsv.fsf@just-testing.permabit.com> (message from Ken Raeburn on Mon, 02 May 2016 16:43:12 -0400)
> From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@permabit.com>
> Cc: 23397@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 02 May 2016 16:43:12 -0400
>
> > If so, perhaps we should call 'fstat' again each time we want to use
> > st.st_size, and retry from the beginning if we find a mismatch?
>
> If the file is large, and being frequently updated in small increments,
> that could delay us considerably, as we restart the process multiple
> times.
That is still better than aborting, right?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-03 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-28 22:05 bug#23397: 25.0.92; assertion failure auto-reverting a file being overwritten Ken Raeburn
2016-05-02 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-02 20:43 ` Ken Raeburn
2016-05-03 15:15 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-05-03 21:04 ` Ken Raeburn
2018-06-16 21:45 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-06-17 5:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-05 14:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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