Re: lynx-dev Lynx Litter on VMS

[brian j. pardy]

On Wed, 14 Oct 1998 address@hidden wrote:

> > +  
> > + #ifdef VMS 
> > +     /* 
> > +      *  Get rid of any copies of the cookie file that VMS creates. 
> > +      */ 
> > +  
> > +     StrAllocCopy(VMScookie_file, cookie_file); 
> > +     StrAllocCat(VMScookie_file, ";-1"); 
> > +  
> > +     while (remove(VMScookie_file) == 0) ; 
> > +         /* 
> > +          *  Reset version number. 
> > +          */ 
> > +     StrAllocCopy(VMScookie_file, cookie_file); 
> > +     StrAllocCat(VMScookie_file, ";1"); 
> > +     rename(cookie_file, VMScookie_file);  
> > + #endif /* VMS */ 
> 
> The last couple of lines are redundant and error-prone.  If the remove loop
> fails due to permissions, you'll end up renaming the most recent file to a
> lower version than the possible older file.  So I'd simply omit that.
> 
> (I'll add the first part to pre.10, since I don't see anything else
> wrong)

Ah, okay. That sounds good to me. 

In that case you might want to have a look at the similar code for the 
.lynxrc file, I grabbed it and barely modified it.


> > +  
> >   } 
> >   #endif 

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