Don't have "write_prefs()" display a dialog box if the attempt to open

the preferences file fails, have it return an error indication and the
path of the preferences file, and have its caller display the dialog
box.  That way you don't have to drag in the dialog box code if you're
going to use the preferences code in, say, a "line-mode" Ethereal.

svn path=/trunk/; revision=1413

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/prefs.c b/prefs.c
index bf2e90c433..46d7ba40a1 100644
--- a/prefs.c
+++ b/prefs.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /* prefs.c
  * Routines for handling preferences
  *
- * $Id: prefs.c,v 1.28 1999/12/30 23:02:38 gram Exp $
+ * $Id: prefs.c,v 1.29 2000/01/03 06:29:32 guy Exp $
  *
  * Ethereal - Network traffic analyzer
  * By Gerald Combs <gerald@zing.org>
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@
 #include "prefs.h"
 #include "column.h"
 #include "print.h"
-#include "ui_util.h"
 
 /* Internal functions */
 static int    set_pref(gchar*, gchar*);
@@ -454,8 +453,8 @@ set_pref(gchar *pref, gchar *value) {
   return 1;
 }
 
-void
-write_prefs(void) {
+int
+write_prefs(char **pf_path_return) {
   FILE        *pf;
   struct stat  s_buf;
   
@@ -480,10 +479,9 @@ write_prefs(void) {
 
   sprintf(pf_path, "%s/%s/%s", getenv("HOME"), PF_DIR, PF_NAME);
   if ((pf = fopen(pf_path, "w")) == NULL) {
-     simple_dialog(ESD_TYPE_WARN, NULL,
-      "Can't open preferences file\n\"%s\".", pf_path);
-   return;
- }
+    *pf_path_return = pf_path;
+    return errno;
+  }
     
   fputs("# Configuration file for Ethereal " VERSION ".\n"
     "#\n"
@@ -551,4 +549,10 @@ write_prefs(void) {
 		  gui_ptree_expander_style_text[prefs.gui_ptree_expander_style]);
 
   fclose(pf);
+
+  /* XXX - catch I/O errors (e.g. "ran out of disk space") and return
+     an error indication, or maybe write to a new preferences file and
+     rename that file on top of the old one only if there are not I/O
+     errors. */
+  return 0;
 }