Re: [Mldonkey-users] File corruption following, mldonkey hardening proposal

[Lionel Bouton]

Markus Hitter wrote:

> Am Sonntag, 18.05.03 um 15:34 Uhr schrieb Lionel Bouton:
>
> > I've seen mldonkey-2.4-1 create "empty" files in the commut directory.
>
>
> You're talking about the "incoming" directory, right?


Yes the one the files are commited in. (comm_u_t was a typo).

> mldonkey shouldn't create anything there, except for autocommited 
> files.  I'd consider this behaviour as a bug.


I couldn't agree more !

> Probably, you have switched auto-commiting off? 


Yes, I want to choose the name :-)

> I don't like auto-commiting for the reasons you described nicely. 
> Obviously, even manually commiting with file-recheck doesn't make 
> things foolproof :-(
>
> If you set incoming/ and all files therein to read-only, does this 
> trigger anything? mlnet should work as before, IMO.


Hum, I don't want to take this risk, I've no idea what will happen if 
the dir is read-only when I'll commit one file.

LB.