On 11/5/07, Philip Martin <philip@codematters.co.uk> wrote:
> "David Glasser" <glasser@davidglasser.net> writes:
>
> > Here's a simple patch that makes the test I added in r27575 pass. The
> > whole test suite passes with this patch applied, but since this bug
> > involves error behavior, the test suite might not actually cover it
> > well. I would like review before I commit.
> >
> > (An alternate implementation, which would still allow *some* in-memory
> > logs to be run during cleanup, would be to have a boolean
> > "logs_ok_to_run" flag on the directory baton, which is cleared every
> > time the accumulator is appended to and set only when the accumulator
> > is definitely runnable.)
> >
> > --dave
> >
> > [[[
> > Fix wc corruption caused by flushing potentially-incomplete logs
> > during baton cleanup on error, by just not flushing logs during baton
> > cleanup. Makes the new update test #42 pass.
> >
> > * subversion/libsvn_wc/update_editor.c
> > (cleanup_dir_baton): Don't call flush_log.
> >
> > * subversion/tests/cmdline/update_tests.py
> > (test_list): eof_in_interactive_conflict_resolver now passes.
> > ]]]
>
> It's certainly a serious mistake to run incomplete log files (unless
> the implementation has had a major rework, I haven't really been
> following the development recently).
>
> Your alternate implementation sounds much better: as I understand it
> your proposed patch means that if a large update is interrupted there
> could be lots of log "files" in memory corresponding to megabytes of
> downloaded data and effectively all this data would be lost.
That's true.
On the other hand, if you're interrupting an operation, do you really
want megabytes worth of work to be done before the process finishes?
--dave
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