Re: swap files

[Eric Brunet]

On Sat, Oct 09, 1999 at 07:07:59PM -0700, Jay Cox wrote:
 David Monniaux wrote:
  Would it be possible to have Gimp unlink() the files after opening them?
 
 If we unlink the swap file after opening it then we have no way of knowing how
 much space gimp is using for it's swap file.
 
I don't understand: can't you fstat your file handlers to compute used
space ?

 I think unlinking the swap files in the signal handler that is called when we
 crash would solve this problem.  The cases where this will not work should be
 rare enough not to worry about.

Well, power failures or cleaning people unplugging computers are not that
rare...

Éric Brunet

Re: swap files

[Marco Lamberto]

On Sat, 09 Oct 1999, Adrian Likins wrote:
   If I recall correctly, this has been suggested a few times
and made it into released versions of gimp at least once, only to be removed
later for reasons I do not recall. Seems like some sort of portability issues
perhaps, but its been a long time. The easiest way to remember why it got
removed is probabaly to put it back in though and see who yells ;-
How about putting the unlink() call inside the signal handler that traps the
crashes? This behavior would be nicer than unlinking the swap file after
it's creation.
Also because I don't think that this will work well when gimp is running on
HP-UX and NFS (but I'm not completly sure of that).
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