[Gnu-arch-users] [bug] useless error when library inode signature file is bogus

[Aaron Bentley]

Somehow, I wound up with an inode signature file whose entire contents 
were address@hidden  The error I got was:

arch: ill formated input
   input source: 
./{arch}/,,inode-sigs/address@hidden

I thought this was a reference to the project tree.  It was actually a 
reference to the revision library.  Took ages to sort that out.

Ideally, the message would be along the lines of:
corrupt library (invalid inode signature file)
    archive: address@hidden
    revision: engine--devel--7.6--patch-270
You should remove this revision from your library.

I think the whole thing would be simpler if errors were handled by 
returning 0 or similar.  It's quite difficult to propogate useful error 
reporting state from libraries.c to relational.c through inode-sigs.c

Aaron

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Aaron Bentley
Director of Technology
Panometrics, Inc.