On Friday, April 18, 2003, at 11:33  AM, Christos Zoulas wrote:

> Log Message:
> Recovery of vi files has been broken for a long while. This patch is a
> stopgap measure to make vi recovery mostly functional on non-binary 
> files.
> The problem is that the db holding the recovery file can become 
> corrupted,
> in which case the data size of the line becomes huge. We use 
> heuristics to
> correct the size when we load a db in recovery mode. We could use a 
> slightly
> better heuristic (looking for ascii chars before correcting the 
> length),
> but it is not worth it. Another way would have been to trap the SEGV 
> and
> access data[len] and see if that worked, but that seemed exceedingly 
> ugly.

I think a better solution would be to prevent the DB from getting 
corrupted in the first place!

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>