[Xastir-Dev] TODO for "stable"?

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

Add a config-file option for where we store track, or, by default, store 
the track in the user's ~/.xastir/tracks directory?

gerry

Magne Mæhre wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>Magne Mæhre wrote (2003-05-10 21:48:27):
> 
> | >>>>>>>>>>>> Curt Mills, WE7U wrote (2003-05-10 08:55:07):
> | | 
> | | The bug-fixes I've done lately added too much new code, which has
> | | caused two new packet-of-death bugs to appear.  I had to fix those as
> | | well.  Please forward any packets causing new packet-of-death
> | | segfaults directly to me, and quickly!  I'm done adding new code
> | | unless another major bug pops up somewhere.
> | 
> | I've seen a segfault problem when storing tracks lately (for the
> | last week or so).  Whenever I go into station details and press
> | "store track", it segfaults (log is below).  If the station is
> | fixed, there is no segfault, but for every station with track data,
> | I get a segfault..
> | 
> | I'm not yet too familiar with the xastir code, but I'll look into it.
> 
> Ok, the problem was in create_shapefile_map (maps.c).  If the
> current user hasn't privilege to write to the maps/GPS
> directory, the DBFAddField calls will segfault.
> 
> In my case, it will try to write these files to
> /usr/local/xastir/maps/GPS/<filename> , which is protected.  I haven't
> seen a configuration that lets me override this per user (and I don't
> want to let every user write to this place).
>  
> Anyway, here is a diff for a check that bails out if the shapefiles
> can't be created:
> 
> 
> --Magne / la1bfa
> 
> Index: src/maps.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/xastir/xastir/src/maps.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.268
> diff -u -r1.268 maps.c
> --- src/maps.c  9 May 2003 17:43:56 -0000       1.268
> +++ src/maps.c  10 May 2003 20:33:33 -0000
> @@ -1180,6 +1180,12 @@
>      my_shp_handle = SHPCreate(temp_shapefile_name, type);
>           my_dbf_handle = DBFCreate(temp_shapefile_name);
> 
> 	  +    if ((my_shp_handle == NULL) || (my_dbf_handle == NULL)) {
> 	  +        // Probably write-protected directory
> 	  +        fprintf(stderr, "Could not create shapefile %s\n",
> 	  +                temp_shapefile_name);
> 	  +        return;
> 	  +    }
> 	       // Create the different fields we'll use to store the
> 	       // attributes:
> 	       //
> 
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