Re: autoloading from deleted wordcode digest files

[Clint Adams <clint@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:44:39AM +0000, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> You have it backwards.  Clint wants check_dump_file() to search for a
> function in the already-mapped files because load_dump_header() fails
> if it can't do an open().

Right.

> The problem I see with it is that it could cause mysterious violations
> of fpath ordering.  I guess it wouldn't be so bad if it were only the
> fallback case exactly when load_dump_header() can't open().

On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 01:14:18PM +0200, Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
> Note that check_dump_file() does search mapped files, but only if
> try_dump_file() could stat the file to compare st_ino and st_dev.

> I think I actually considered saving only the filename in the funcdump
> struct and compare that (for the equality test, we'd still need
> something like that to find out which is the youngest file).

On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 03:21:04PM +0400, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> Will this help?
> 
> int fstat(int fildes, struct stat *buf);

I suppose that would also obviate the need for storing the
filename in funcdump.