Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Now, I think I have my first (mini) bug. When opening a file that the
>> user doesn't have read access to, the error is a bit cryptic:
>>
>> The file type of file <FILENAME> is unknown.
>
> I know how that happens - gnucash tries to identify the file by letting each
> backend try to open it in turn. If none can open it, it complains that it
> cannot understand which type of file it is meant to be. We can't use
> mimetypes to distinguish the forms (as two are text/xml and we've never
> enforced a mime-type on old files) so we do have to open the file to
> determine the type.
Well, the other option is to actually pass the error up the stack
so that the caller can get a GNC_BACKEND_ERR_FILE_INACCESSIBLE (or
something like that) up the stack.. I've seen similar error-hiding
as a result of qof_session_export() not passing the error up the
stack. :(
-derek
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