Re: [Libreoffice] Assertions and Logging

On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 16:23 +0100, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> True.  So an improvement probably better left for the hypothetical 
> future where we have really fast save and/or save in the background.

        Of course; in a world of interactive co-editing; we should really
stream everything people edit to a journal file using that serialisation
& then replay it when we re-start ;-) [ and then kill autosave
altogether ].

        But that of course requires rather more work.

> (One thing we could IMO improve though, is to not rely on trying to
> save open documents from within a signal handler, but instead rely on
> frequent auto-save and roll back to the last saved version after a
> crash.)

        Until then, I think we need to stick with the signal handler, sadly, it
is truly ugly, and I assume it can deadlock too if the signal happens at
certain places wrt. holding mutex', remarkably few posix calls are
signal-safe.

        HTH,

                Michael.

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