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Comment:	Work-around for segfault & data corruption when secring is not available A couple of things here: 1) I probably use PWMan in a way that wasn't intended: I only make my secret key available to in temporarily, once authorised I delete the secring.gpg file entirely so it isn't hanging about on a machine. So when it times out I need to remember to copy my key back to the machine before I try to re-authorise. Sometimes I forget and ... 2) It seems that for reasons I don't have the inclination or ability to figure out, PWMan segfaults on exit when the secring.gpg isn't available or is 0 bytes (or, probably, doesn't contain the required secret key). This on it's own isn't a bad thing, but when it does this it also seems to have a nasty habit of corrupting the password database; not always in an immediately obvious manner so I can end up "backing up" this corrupted version. So as a workaround (for my usage circumstances), this fix checks whether the secring file is 0 bytes and if it is waits until it isn't (I.e. I've copied it back to the machine) before asking for re-authorisation. This isn't perfect as it only waits once. I.e. if it recognises the secring is available it'll prompt for the password, but it is possible that in this time I could get distracted and come back after the secring file is removed again (since I remove it automatically) and forget and cause a segfault, but then I've only my stupid self to blame.
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User & Date:	base@atomicules.co.uk 2014-01-06 11:10:08.000

Context

2014-05-13
20:40		Avoid getting stuck in a loop when moving items I have a habit of hitting m instead of M and then getting stuck in a loop of "Sublist does not exist, try again" because there is no sublist I can move to. Although the code is meant to allow you to break out of this by pressing return (the answer[0] bit) it doesn't work for me (perhaps because of the changes I made on ui_statusline_ask_str that restore values on return?). So instead of running it in a loop, just run it once on keypress - it's not exactly a hassle to run it again if I do actually want to move an item and type it wrong. check-in: 84a89d1e8e user: base@atomicules.co.uk tags: origin/tweaks, trunk
2014-01-06
11:10		Work-around for segfault & data corruption when secring is not available A couple of things here: 1) I probably use PWMan in a way that wasn't intended: I only make my secret key available to in temporarily, once authorised I delete the secring.gpg file entirely so it isn't hanging about on a machine. So when it times out I need to remember to copy my key back to the machine before I try to re-authorise. Sometimes I forget and ... 2) It seems that for reasons I don't have the inclination or ability to figure out, PWMan segfaults on exit when the secring.gpg isn't available or is 0 bytes (or, probably, doesn't contain the required secret key). This on it's own isn't a bad thing, but when it does this it also seems to have a nasty habit of corrupting the password database; not always in an immediately obvious manner so I can end up "backing up" this corrupted version. So as a workaround (for my usage circumstances), this fix checks whether the secring file is 0 bytes and if it is waits until it isn't (I.e. I've copied it back to the machine) before asking for re-authorisation. This isn't perfect as it only waits once. I.e. if it recognises the secring is available it'll prompt for the password, but it is possible that in this time I could get distracted and come back after the secring file is removed again (since I remove it automatically) and forget and cause a segfault, but then I've only my stupid self to blame. check-in: 58b6e98d51 user: base@atomicules.co.uk tags: origin/tweaks, trunk
2014-01-03
22:31		Merge branch 'modernise' into tweaks check-in: 229ff25e0f user: base@atomicules.co.uk tags: origin/tweaks, trunk

Changes

Changes to src/ui.c.