[Pdns-dev] Re: Exception if parameter is not defined

bert hubert ahu at ds9a.nl
Sat Aug 30 18:58:09 CEST 2003


On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 05:23:28PM +0200, Norbert Sendetzky wrote:
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> Hi Bert
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> Isn't it a little bit hard to throw a fatal error if a parameter 
> should be set in ArgMap and nobody claims responsible for?
> IMHO it would be better to report an error to syslog, so PDNS could 
> proceed starting up.

Nope - it is an error you should notice, it should hurt. Think of the linux
BUG_ON parameter, the same discussion applies.


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