Georg Baum wrote: >> The buffer tmp dirs are sub directories of LyXTmpDir. If you can >> create LyXTmpDir yet fail to create BufferTmpDir then I suspect >> that lyx should refuse to open the buffer and should probably exit >> with a very loud complaint. > > Do you mean that exiting from within the buffer constructor is ok? > This would be easy.
Given the mantra "lyx should never crash", I'd prefer it if lyx just refused to construct the buffer. We don't use exceptions, so I guess that means that the buffer constructor must be wrapped inside a function. I guess that this is a lot of work, right? -- Angus
