From: Ashley M. Kirchner (ashley@pcraft.com)
Date: Sun Sep 17 2000 - 12:58:06 CDT
Martin Schulze wrote:
> Now what happens is, hypermail tries to write that new file as 0210.html
> instead of 0346.html. Why? Wouldn't it be more expectable that the
> file 0210.html would be ignored and a new file would be created?
> Especially since writing to 0210.html fails?
I think this happens because it failed to read the next file (in this case,
0210). It successfully found out that file number 0209 exists, and suddenly
encounters a problem at the next one and stops. And for some reason, assumes
that's the next one it should be writing.
Personally, I think this is a problem, yes. A problem in the sense that
hypermail stops and tries to write that file out instead of stopping with an
error. But at the same time, how to address it? I mean, you're talking about one
single file that got chmodded. What if someone else decides to chmod a whole slew
of files? Is hypermail supposed to ignore each error it encounters and just
continue increasing its counter? Maybe a better way was if hypermail kept some
sort of record of the last file it wrote (0346) and on the next run just increment
from there? This smells like a DB capability (can anyone say mhonarc?)
AMK4
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