[GRASS-dev] [bug #4522] (grass) r.series: error in row of input map is non-fatal giving wrong results

[Hamish]

> > The read error should trigger a G_fatal_error().
> 
> Agreed. The question is: why does libgis leave this to individual
> modules rather than doing it itself? Are there really modules which
> might want to do something other than call G_fatal_error() in this
> case?

I doubt it.


Is there a possibility of many orphaned .tmp files if the module exits
during a read while an output map open? i.e. how important is it to exit
with clean-up at any given point of a typical raster [read; do stuff;
write] operation?


Hamish