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- From: gened@gssc.UUCP (Gene Daniel)
- Newsgroups: alt.sources
- Subject: Re: elvis on a PC - Quick-C
- Message-ID: <6315@gssc.UUCP>
- Date: 31 Aug 90 08:01:59 GMT
-
- In article <6887@vax1.acs.udel.EDU> bruschke@vax1.udel.edu (Michiel Bruschke) writes:
- >
- >In article 2160 of alt.sources Marvin Kraska writes:
- >
- >> However, I have noticed that on the PC, lost clusters are reported
- >>by "chkdsk" on the drive that the temporary file is placed. Sure
- >>enough, the recovered file is elvis's temp. I glanced at the tmp.c
- >>code, and didn't see anything obvious.
- >
- >I noticed exactly the same thing on my system. I compiled elvis
- >using Quick-C. Elvis copies the tmp file to the new file, but
- >then somehow improperly deletes the tmp files. It seems to do
- >this with all tmp files it opens, cut buffers as well as regular
- >tmp file. Will take a closer look at source to see if I can figure
- >it out (probably over weekend).
- >
- >So if you use elvis be sure to run chkdsk /f afterwards.
- >
- >Mike Bruschke
-
- I also found this. I found it both with MSC and with Zortech so it wasn't
- the compiler. Some time back I discovered that deleting an open file
- causes unallocated clusters. This is apparently the cause of the lost
- clusters from Elvis.
-
- I was able to fix it by placeing the following two lines just before
- the rename() call in the routine cutswitch() in the file cut.c:
-
- close(tmpfd);
- tmpfd = -1;
-
- The only other access to this file is after it is renamed to a cut
- buffer file and this is done through a dup'ed file descriptor. I have
- sent this information to Steve Kirkendall, the author of Elvis, so
- the "official" patch should soon be on it's way. I have been using
- Elvis with this fix and named cut buffers between files seem to be
- working alright and no more unallocated clusters.
-
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