Hi Ian! On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Ian Jackskon <[email protected]> wrote: > > This report is regarding the error behaviour of: > Tcl_Main(int argc, char *argv[], Tcl_AppInitProc *appInitProc) > with respect to appInitProc which has this type: > int Tcl_AppInit(Tcl_Interp *interp) > > The documentation says that appInitProc may return TCL_OK or _ERROR. > The implication of TCL_ERROR is that the initialisation failed. Under > these conditions continuing to execute the program or shell is not > appropriate.
I'm not sure that i isn't an intended behavior and appInitProc() shouldn't call exit() itself if the failure is fatal. I've opened a new bug in upstream bugtracker to collect opinions on this. > > As a demonstration: > mariner:~> DISPLAY=: wish > Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display ":" > % mariner:~> > mariner:~> cat >t.tcl > vwait variable > mariner:~> DISPLAY=: wish -f t.tcl > Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display ":" > [hangs] These tests rather test Tk_Main() and not Tcl_Main(), but its behavior is similar (though it doesn't exit when interpreter is deleted). -- Sergei Golovan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
