On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Andreas Hansson wrote: > > > However you titled your email "Bug in command line parsing" and it is NOT > a "bug". > > In my opinion, freezing up due to an invalid command line option instead of > printing/logging an error message or at least refusing to start IS a bug. > It's not what well-behaving software should do. Unfortunately there seems to > be a lot of cases where xmail will proceed and fail in some random and hard > to debug way instead of printing an error message as soon as the problem can > be detected.
Inside an application like Photoshop, I would have to agree. This is a server software, meant to be used by ppl that know what they're doing. After you spent 8 hours because of the use of a bad parameter, the next time I'm pretty sure you will be more carefull in touching configurations. Or you will stop using XMail ( natural selection ). And both are good things. Different is the validaion of parameters coming from the clients, that must be strongly validated to avoid security flaws. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
