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Re: lynx-dev cookie file observation/question


From: dickey
Subject: Re: lynx-dev cookie file observation/question
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 05:18:02 -0400 (EDT)

> On Thu, May 27, 1999, brian j. pardy (address@hidden) said: 
> | 
> | > A curiousity that I've noticed, is that on each lynx invocation, 
> | > the new .cookie file that is written upon exiting lynx, is written 
> | > in the reverse order of the pre-invocation file (ie, invoke/exit 
> | > lynx twice in a row, and the .cookie file is back to the original 
> | > order). 
> | 
> | Indeed that does happen, and led me down quite a few incorrect paths 
> | when I was attempting to debug the trunc problems.  It's an annoyance 
> | more than anything, AFAICT it is not being done for a reason -- it's 
> | just an artifact of how they're stored in cookie_list (in store_cookie()) 
> | when read from the file.  Each new cookie is inserted at the head of 
> | the list, not at the end. 
>  
> In case you haven't seen it yet, in one of the recent -pre.n distributions 
> (pre.6 or pre.7, IIRC), Tom seems to have fixed this, so that now the 
> .cookie file is written the same on each invocation (cookies now get 
> added to the end of the internal list). 

yes (there appears to be nothing broken by appending to the end, right?)
  
> /kim 


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Thomas E. Dickey
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