[coldsync-hackers] coldsync as root

[Daniel Lemire <lemire at ondelette dot com>]

Now, maybe I sent this before, but I don't know if it made it.


Shouldn't coldsync exit gracefully when run as root? This morning I used 
it and it dumped core on me. I was going wild outputting all the debug 
info in the world, and it kept dumping core.

I understood after 60s that I was running as root (ok, I shouldn't have 
been logged as root in the first place! Shoot me!)

Admittedly, it is well documented, but surely, there must be a way to 
hit return instead of dumping core...  Something like

if root
"Don't run me as root you idiot! You shouldn't be root in the first place!"
exit


would seem a lot better from a user's perspective then the current behavior.


-- 
Daniel Lemire, Ph.D.

http://www.ondelette.com/



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