Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis: > When I first wrote 'wicd-service', I mispelled > 'make-forkexec-constructor'. This caused a kernel panic whenever the > service was included in my OS config. I don't know whether dmd printed > a helpful error message, but if so, it was followed immediately by a > kernel call trace that caused earlier messages to scroll off the screen. > The result is that it was quite difficult to find the source of the > error. > > In case of such errors, it would be good if dmd would print an error > message with the most useful information at the bottom (in case it does > not all fit on the display) and then to avoid exiting so that the > message could be read and understood.
Commit b9c7ed7 wraps service loading in ‘call-with-error-handling’, which spawns a REPL when something goes wrong. Better than a kernel panic! Ludo’.
