[GNUnet-developers] Re: design suggestion 1

[Christian Grothoff]

On Thursday 20 June 2002 06:19 am, you wrote:
> ps. got gnunetd crash last night. gdbm failed on lseek
> and committed suicide. Either the database has been corrupted
> (btw is ctrl-c a *safe way to exit* ? ... i didn't see a
> respective signal handler anyway) or something else is
> amiss. i've yet been unable to reproduce the error though.

CTRL-C is as safe as it currently gets since there is no propper shutdown 
implemented (I've started to draft some code for individual modules, but not 
much yet). That's also why you will never see HANGUP messages in the current 
GNUnet. On the positive side, the entire code has been written to tolerate 
very abrupt and inconvenient (kill -9) ways to die :-). 

gdbm failed on lseek!? How can that happen? 4GB database? :-). 

Christian