Bug Report - Saving Empty File Causes Crash

[Robert Graham Merkel]

Christopher Browne writes:
 > This is with a CVS checkout from last night of the latest and greatest.
 > 
 > This is admittedly one of those pathological cases where the "dumb user"
 > has _nothing to save_, so that trying to save the DB is a mite silly.
 > 
 > Crashing is nonetheless an irritating result.

Any crash is a serious bug.  Somebody (RMS?) said something along the
lines of "properly written software should never crash".  While the
development series isn't to that stage yet, we'd certainly like it to
to be as uncrashable as possible before release.  For one thing,
instead of sending one email to the -devel list, it'll require 27 to
people who don't bother to check ML archives or even buglists ;-)

Anyway, I can confirm the crash.  I'll have a quick look, as it's an
opportunity to get familiar with the File IO code which I'm going to
have to modify in a little while anyway.

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Robert Merkel	                           rgmerk@mira.net

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