[Pan-users] Re: System crash, Pan reset to defaults

[Duncan]

walt <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Fri, 07 Sep 2007
02:43:21 +0000:

> I find that pan is amazingly robust when reading a corrupt posting.xml
> file.  I've injected garbage ascii characters and deleted entire lines
> of posting.xml and pan calmly restores a corrected version with no
> complaints.

$ldd /usr/bin/pan
        [...]
        libxml2.so.2 => /usr/lib64/libxml2.so.2 (0x00002b0195e44000)
        [...]
$

It's therefore not unreasonable to assume pan's ability to deal with 
borked xml is likely at least partially due to libxml2's abilities. =8^)


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