gnucash not saving nor warning when partition full

[Christian Stimming]

Neil Williams schrieb:
> On Tuesday 05 April 2005 6:34 pm, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 
>>Unfortunately it's not trivial, because the API between the UI and the
>>non-UI bits don't pass enough information to notice the error.
> 
> Could we check the return value of the fprintf in line 931 (and elsewhere) in 
> src/backend/file/io-gncxml-v2.c and set a QofBackendError ? (using 
> qof_book_get_backend?)

Yes, I think this would at least get us somewhere.

> xmlElemDump is a void prototype:
> http://www.xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-tree.html#xmlElemDump
> but in each case in io-gnc-xml-v2.c, it is followed by an fprintf.
> 
> It wouldn't be particularly specific, but it would indicate that the write 
> functions failed - for whatever reason.
> 
> In QSF, I use xmlDocFormatDump which does return a negative value on error - 
> although I'm not utilising that at the moment.
> http://www.xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-tree.html#xmlDocFormatDump
> 
> I can check for a negative return int and set the same QofBackendError - added 
> to qofbackend.h and an appropriate message in src/app-file/gnc-file.c - would 
> that solve the bug?

I think that would be good.

Christian