Re: [Pan-users] Segfault at exit

[Jim Henderson]

On Sun, 25 Dec 2016 14:33:21 +0000, Duncan wrote:

> Jim Henderson posted on Sat, 24 Dec 2016 17:56:17 +0000 as excerpted:
> 
>>> And IIRC I had a problem with a corrupt tasks.nzb at one point, tho
>>> that should be regularly updated, so I wouldn't expect it to be the
>>> problem in this case as it has been an ongoing problem for you for
>>> some time, and that was a more urgent "pan won't work at all" problem
>>> for me, when it got corrupted.
>> 
>> Also good to know.  I don't tend to use nzb files, but if that's a
>> standard behaviour, then that could well be something to look at.
> 
> Standard behavior indeed, as tasks.nzb is how pan stores downloads it
> hasn't completed yet when it shuts down.

Good to know. :)

> One thing Charles did a good job on in the pan C++ rewrite is choosing
> to use established standard solutions whenever possible, even when it
> meant some extra work as it did with the newsrc files because they are
> only single-server and the Charles worked hard to make the pan rewrite
> transparent multi-server (and did a good job at it, if I do say so!)

That is a pretty good decision. :)

> And since he was adding nzb support already, I guess he decided to reuse
> that code to store unfinished tasks over a shutdown, as well.  Which is
> genius in a way, as the nzb code gets far more routine use on a far
> broader set of systems than it otherwise would, that way.
> 
> But it threw me for a loop when I had problems with it as well, because
> to my knowledge I wasn't doing anything with nzbs, and at the time I had
> no idea pan was actually using the file, so it was the /last/ thing I
> expected to be the problem.  Of course once I found out it was and I
> opened it and saw the corruption, I gained both a better understanding
> of how pan works, and a new appreciation for Charles' wisdom and genius
> in using an established standard in a way I certainly hadn't expected.

He certainly did an outstanding job getting this program up and running - 
and converted to OOP. :)

Jim

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