[Gdal-dev] why does shape datasource count lone dbf files as layers?

[Ari Jolma]

I have data in shapefiles, which use dynamic segmentation. Thus (I 
believe) there are lone DBF files in the directory, which contain the 
"dynamic" data.

Why does ogrshapedatasource.cpp:306-320 count these files as layers? The 
source code speaks about "without apparent associated shapefiles", in my 
case there are simply no associated shapefiles. The datasource is later 
unusable since the respective SHP files are not available and the 
program ends in error. I need to manually put these DBF files aside to 
be able to open the real layers.

Ari

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