On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:46:28AM -0000, Dave Hooper wrote: > > Yeah, I suppose we should rerelease. It can be fixed by removing the > > backwards-compatible-to-single-dir-nativefsdirectory code. Then it will > > only wipe files in the numbered subdirs that shouldn't be there. We > > should perhaps put the temp files in the temp dir now that we have one, > > and not delete anything anywhere else. > > Yeh, I, unh, guess so. Whose idea was it to implement backwards- > compatibility as "delete all files in the current directory"? Who reckoned > that didn't have the potential to upset some of the users? :-) Me. Sorry, I stored initially all files in the current directory; only later did they become temp-* until they were committed; only later than that did they go into subdirs. I'll put them all in the temp dir (store/temp/) and only delete temp-* filenames from there. > > >> Imagine the complaints if the user wants to put their datastore > >> in the root of C:\ > > > It doesn't recurse. > > Woohoo. So it *only* has the potential to delete msdos.sys, config.sys, > autoexec.bat, boot.ini and ntldr, thus rendering the operating system > completely unbootable and probably unrecoverable. Nice. Unrecoverable? Certainly not :) > > d >
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