Re: [Ayttm-commits] CVS: ayttm/modules/msn2 msn.C,1.58,1.59

[Colin Leroy]

On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 13:28:22 +0530 (IST) Philip S Tellis
<address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

> > +   || !strcmp("-1", value_pair_get_value(msn_grouplist, eb_name))) {
> 
> so what does the -1 mean anyway? 

Temporary ID
It is, when we add a group we send the server the order to do it, and he
answers with the ID of the new group. Meanwhile things can happen so i add
the group with a dummy ID, so i don't add it N times. When we get a group
description from server, we add it only if it doesn't already exist (or
the ID is the dummy one).

> that's what was showing up in my debug output I think. 

Ok, so I guess (hope) that was this bug and it won't happen again ;).

> also, what does a group name of ~ mean?

that's teh default group (ID 0) for a new msn account. 
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