[Gdal-dev] OGR: opening shapefiles with no records

[Frank Warmerdam]

Marco Hugentobler wrote:
> Dear OGR developers,
> 
> When i open a shapefile with no records i receive a crash in the 
> GetDBFCount method (it seems, that the dbf-handle is a null pointer). Is 
> it not possible to open empty shapefiles with OGR or am i doing 
> something wrong? At the moment, i insert a dummy feature for empty 
> layers as a workaround, but it would of course be nicer without this. 
> The version i am using is 1.2.3 on Suse-9.1
> 
> Thanks,
> Marco

Marco,

Can you provide a zip or tar file of such a problem dataset?   This definately
should not happen.  Best to submit it to the GDAL bugzilla if you don't mind.

Thanks,
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