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| author | viega | 1998-05-31 05:28:14 +0000 |
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| committer | viega | 1998-05-31 05:28:14 +0000 |
| commit | 8707ccc08927c4d005e5d3e15f38c39c13e3158c (patch) | |
| tree | f30cfac4d63b17c5204b98879dba65a022bedf1f /modules/maillist.py | |
| parent | 406eed48de108279f65385804904c8098ad10d01 (diff) | |
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As a safety measure, copy over the list config file to config.last
before we write out a new one. I got hosed once on my big list when
the process got killed by some load dog software when it was in the
middle of writing out the database.
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/modules/maillist.py b/modules/maillist.py index 5fc44e499..268bea891 100644 --- a/modules/maillist.py +++ b/modules/maillist.py @@ -520,7 +520,13 @@ class MailList(MailCommandHandler, HTMLFormatter, Deliverer, ListAdmin, self.IsListInitialized() ou = os.umask(002) try: - file = open(os.path.join(self._full_path, 'config.db'), 'w') + fname = os.path.join(self._full_path, 'config.db') + fname_last = fname + ".last" + if os.path.exists(fname_last): + os.unlink(fname_last) + os.link(fname, fname_last) + os.unlink(fname) + file = open(fname, 'w') finally: os.umask(ou) dict = {} |