Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 16:33:31 03/02/04
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On March 02, 2004 at 05:43:25, Uri Blass wrote: >Movei of today saves all it's games with slightly more information in a log >file. >Every game is only few kbytes but if somebody play thousands of games the log >file may be some mbytes. > >When I think about it then I think that it is not ok to steal memory from the >computer of the user unless the user gave a special permission for it. Disk space is ridiculously cheap. Most people probably have several GB of free space on their hard drive nowadays. They will never in a million years notice a few MB of logfiles. >I even thought that people may complain that chess programs like movei and every >chess program that has a logfile or use a learning file that gets bigger is a >virus. > >I can explain why. > >1)I am afraid that Movei can cause a demage to the computer of the user by >forcing it to save a logfile. If there is no space, the write will just fail. Nothing really happens. There is no possibility of 'damage' being caused to the computer. >What happens if the computer has not enough memory to save the logfile? If a user is _that_ low on disk space that they can't save a few more KB logfile, they already have major problems. The operating system itself will have problems with that little free space, because there will be no space for temporary files, virtual memory expansion, or anything else that may be needed.
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