[Gdal-dev] segfault in SHPCreateObject

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 9/13/05, Ari Jolma <ari.jolma at tkk.fi> wrote:
> The question was whether "one should not be able to produce a seg fault
> by a scripting interface" sounded reasonable.

Ari, 

I think it is over ambitious in the case of GDAL and OGR
to expect to achieve the above goal.  However, I would like
to try and make it somewhat hard to produce a segfault
from the scripting interface. 

> I guess that's of course
> also up to the binding developers to put more shields. I'm very
> interested in having bullet proof code in the sense that the (stupid)
> end user hacking the script just shouldn't be able to blow up to whole
> thing. That's because I'm giving the end user a CLI where to hack in his
> stupid code, and they will do that since they are often students in my
> case. Cryptic error messages are always better than segfaults. But as
> said, there are many paths.

I understand the rationale, I just think it may be over ambitious.

Best regards,
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