RE: [UM1-coders] Object Store

[Peter C. <pet...@ne...>]

> From: Adrian St. John [mailto:AS...@pa...]
> I've found the reason for that happening; It occurs if you
> overwrite the running executable. Solaris nicely trashes the
> entire game because the 'mv' seems to truncate the file, rather
> than unlink & recreate.

Er... I thought most *nixes did that.  I always moved the old file out of
the way, then copied the new one to the old patchname, which is why you got
netmud.old... or am I talking out of my hat here?

> Not that I can tell. All it gives you is a way of storing arbitrary
> objects to disk, and it looks like it does it by having a custom
> memory allocator that writes into a mmap'd file.

Bugger that, then; it's no better, and in some ways worse, than the current
technique.  At the minimum, I'd want one that could handle transactions.

		- Peter