"Kevin Pilch-Bisson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 09:07:46AM -0700, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 05:03:11PM +0100, Pier Fumagalli wrote:
>>> On Darwin, if there's a link error (in APR-dso, if something goes wrong),
>>> the program will exit without giving a chance to the caller to do anything:
>>>
>>> #man NSModule
>>> [...]
>>> If the user does not supply these functions, the default
>>> will be to write an error message on to file descriptor 2
>>> (usually stderr) and exit the program (except for the
>>> linkEdit error handler when the NSLinkEditErrors is
>>> NSLinkEditWarningError, then the default is to do noth-
>>> ing).
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> "these functions" refer to a set of NSLinkEditErrorHandlers which should be
>>> installed to alter the default behavior... Do you think it would be wise to
>>> go ahead and install them?
>>
>> Is there anything we can do other than exit? -- justin
>
> Well some code, like svn's plugin system, wants to attemp to load a dso to see
> if it is there. If it's not, that's fine, it just means that a certain method
> of accessing the repository is unavailable. Thus, failure to be able to loead
> a dso shouldn't be a fatal error IMO.
Agreed... I can try to get around with a patch once the madness of daytime
work is over this week...
Pier
