Re: Some example code for a new crash handler

[Charles Iliya Krempeaux <tnt linux ca>]

Hello,

On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 14:18, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Hongl Lai <hongli telekabel nl> writes:
> > It is a workaround, to give the user time to save the document.
> 
> Sure, but it's a workaround that works unreliably, and may cause
> dangerous side effects. You're running a corrupted program; not a good
> idea.

Well, how about, instead of saving things over the original files,
you save it as another file name.

For example, if you were using gedit, and it support this thing.
And you were editing the file:

     something.txt

then, on a crash, the file would be saved to:

     something.txt.crash

Or something like that.

That way, you don't screw up your original data (if the program
is too corrupt), but the user at least has to chance to save
their work.  The user could later inspect the file to see if
it is OK.

See ya

     Charles Iliya Krempeaux
     tnt @ linux.ca
     ckrempea @ alumni.sfu.ca