[Pan-users] Re: Possible crash when out of disk space while downloading group headers?

[Duncan]

"CH Low" <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Sat, 05 May 2007 13:41:24
+0800:

> So my question is whether pan has any provision for the .pan2 directory
> running out of space while downloading headers?  It should not crash but
> gracefully stop or alert the user, right?

Formerly, it stopped, you are correct.  However, a recent bug has/had it 
not stopping.  I believe I saw a fix for that already logged in the CVS 
version as of a couple days ago...  Yes:

r239 on 2007-04-20, Bug 431552 – 0.127 no longer stops downloads when out 
of drive space.

However, r242 on 2007-04-21 was the 0.128 version bump, which would have 
included r239.

Maybe the fix was only for bodies, not headers?  I'd suggest finishing 
your test, and if it's indeed overviews/headers (tho over a gig of 
headers is a /lot/), file a bug.  Of course also file one if it's not 
that but still seems to happen.  r241 IIRC fixed a crash on corrupt 
header files bug.  Maybe there's another or maybe the fix made things 
worse in some cases.

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