Re: Issues to fix before 4.6.1?

[Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi kde org>]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 05:46:33PM +0200, Jindrich Novy wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 11:07 +0300, Andrew V. Samoilov wrote:
> > There is a data loss possible if file is edited with external editor over VFS.
> 
> I have similar experience even with mcedit without VFS -> data loss when
> disk quota is exceeded, the edited file is truncated to zero size. I had
> these problems with mc-4.5.51 so I'm not sure if it's still a problem
> with recent mc.
> 
i've had this just yesterday ... good luck it was no important file.
this happens with the quick save mode ... it must, given the way it
works. not sure it can be fixed properly at all without just switching
to another mode. oh, well, it could be fixed to not lose data, but the
resulting file would be a bit inconsistent.

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