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On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 12:48:55AM -0800, Zac Medico wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> There is dangerous handling of world file updates throughout |
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> portage. The attached patch wraps all world file updates in a |
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> write_atomic() function which is designed to prevent interprocess |
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> interference and prevent corruption when an 'out of space' error |
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> occurs. Brian pointed out that portage_util.writedict() already |
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> does a similar routine, but it is designed exclusively to write a |
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> dictionary object. |
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the atomic writing of data in writedict could be gutted out to a |
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derivative of the file class; via that, same underlying atomic update |
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code for writedict and wordfile updates... |
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Zach, game for that mod? ;) |
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~harring |
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