Re: [GNUnet-developers] Pause/Resume makes results show up

[Christian Grothoff]

On Saturday 15 March 2008, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
> If you trigger pause and then resume on a search (in gnunet-gtk) that
> seem to have reported all available results, new entries suddenly show
> up. It's like gnunetd sends again the query trough the network. But this
> can occur with results that already been seen, so maybe there's
> something more complex behind this. This behovior can be major, since
> more than half of the results can appear after doing that, and else
> would have stayed hidden.
>
> I think we can agree this behavior is really bad. I've already took the
> habit of pause/resume several times to get more results, which is not
> the intended use of this feature! (or we may need a "Respawn search"
> button too.)
>
> Search was greatly improved in 0.8.0, but it looks like we can make it
> better. Do you think this is a simple mechanism to correct, or is there
> a real bug, i.e. a tricky situation that has to be investigated?

Sounds like a bug to me.

Christian