[Kst] [Bug 111571] dirfile data source poorly handles error conditions.

[George Staikos]

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------- Additional Comments From staikos kde org  2005-10-12 04:32 -------
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 22:17, Matthew Truch wrote:
> When I wrote the bug report, I wasn't thinking of bugs internal to
> getdata; I was thinking of when people write their own format files
> which contain typos/invalid entries.  We've been seeing alot of these
> since we started data analysis on BLAST and people are creating their
> own raw data and adding (by hand) entries in the format file.  If these
> entries are mistyped or invalid or missing (both the binary data missing
> or the format entry missing) kst silently fails.


  That's different than the exit(0) problem though.  The ones I changed, as 
far as I can tell, are all related to coding specific errors except one.  
That one should return an error code, and is only triggered in OOM conditions 
anyway.