[Qgis-developer] Warning - shapefile corruption on 2.16/master and how to recover

[Nyall Dawson]

On 7 Oct 2016 12:28 AM, "Even Rouault" <even.rouault at spatialys.com> wrote:
>
> Le vendredi 16 septembre 2016 03:08:37, Nyall Dawson a écrit :
> > Unfortunately a fairly nasty regression has slipped in to 2.16 and is
> > still present on master. This results in shapefile corruption in
> > certain circumstances.
>
> I've commited in GDAL trunk and 2.1 branch a fix that revises the way
repacking
> of shapefiles is done, so as to use in-place rewrite of the already
opened file
> rather than trying to remove the temporary copies on top of them, which
was
> prone to issues with files being locked elsewhere. From my tests this
solve the
> issues I could reproduce in http://hub.qgis.org/issues/15570 and
> http://hub.qgis.org/issues/15393 and I'm reasonably confident this is a
robust
> fix for other similar cases. Anyway, testing by others to confirm would be
> appreciated.

Even - thanks for all the hard work you've put into this fix. It's much
appreciated!

I'll give it some testing over the next week and will let you know if I hit
any issues.

Nyall

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