On Friday, 5 April 2013 at 18:38:46 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Part of the point is that if you had an Error, there _is_ no
graceful
shutdown. It's in an invalid state. Doing _anything_ at that
point is risky.
Depending on why the Error occurred, you could just as easily
completely
corrupt playlist files as properly update them. If you have an
Error, you
basically just crashed. Don't expect that to be any cleaner
than if someone
just pulled the plug on your computer.
That is once again nonsense. It MAY not be possible to recover,
it doesn't mean that not even make it possible to try is the
right thing to do.
