[linux-lvm] lvm-viewer/lvm-manager 0.2

[bert hubert]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 12:27:58AM +0100, Paul Jakma wrote:

>   Everything is done via the lvm tools. However, I sometimes pass -f or even
>   -f -f because the program assumes that it has already asked the user
>   permission.
> 
> perhaps you could build something (a mode??) into your app to do
> something like poping up a window saying, eg:

Yeah - I am currently revamping the source so that all external calls get
routed through doexec(), which will have a flag 'modifies data', that can
cause doexec() to popup a window.

The problem is that the program does not always deal well with failures. I
have yet to implement reverse-drag-and-drop, in case the drop failed.

>   It has not damaged any data here, but I do not want to promise that it
>   doesn't do any bad things.
> 
> of course.. i'll try it out on my laptop during the week before
> running it on any servers. :)

Would be a good idea :-)

Regards,

bert hubert.

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