[Xapian-discuss] Atomic DB rebuilds

[Olly Betts]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 01:44:48PM +0100, Richard Boulton wrote:
> I have some doubts that chdir() will successfully solve the problem.
> [snip analysis]

You're right - I'd not considered the multidatabase case.

Furthermore, it's also not terribly friendly to an application using
Xapian to change the current directory underneath their feet.

Actually things are already broken here - if an application opens a
database with a relative path and then does chdir(), quartz won't
cope well I suspect.

Looks like we need to canonicalise the path to the database directory
by eliminating symlinks and making it absolute.

Cheers,
    Olly